jsonlib

For a project I worked on at ITA, we decided to use pickle for internal object serialization/communication. Pickle certainly makes coding simple, but I've occasionally wondered whether we made the best choice. I found this article comparing deserialization libraries to be interesting. It sounds like the two main competing camps are json and Google's protocol buffers. It sounds like protocol buffers is slow (in python) because it is pure python and not optimized for speed. One json library, jsonlib sounds like the right way to go as it provides faster speeds and more compact storage than pickle.