How simdjson Parses JSON at Gigabytes per Second

InfoQ · Talk · 48 min · 2020 · YouTube title: Parsing JSON Really Quickly: Lessons Learned

Why it's here

HN points to it as the best explanation of simdjson internals and of why fast parsing is rarely disk-bound.

What it covers

Daniel Lemire's QCon talk on how simdjson parses gigabytes of JSON per second. It covers SIMD vectorization, branch prediction and the lessons learned building a fast parser.