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		Supermancho 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it stream... When you want to pull multi-gig JSON files and not wait for the full file before processing is where I first used this.

rictic 7 months ago [–]

Funnily enough, this was one of the first users of jsonriver at google. A team needed to parse more JSON than most JS VMs will allow you to fit into a single string, so they had no choice but to use a streaming parser.

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