--- JSON-XS/Changes 2008/07/19 04:21:32 1.117 +++ JSON-XS/Changes 2010/03/11 17:36:09 1.141 @@ -1,5 +1,69 @@ Revision history for Perl extension JSON::XS +TODO: document precision loss for floating point. + - implement our own atof function - perl's can be orders of + magnitudes slower than even the system one. on the positive + side, ours seems to be more exact in general than perl's. + (testcase provided by Tim Meadowcroft). + - update jpsykes csrf article url. + - updated benchmark section - JSON::PP became much faster! + +2.27 Thu Jan 7 07:35:08 CET 2010 + - support relaxed option inside the incremental parser + (testcase provided by IKEGAMI via Makamaka). + +2.26 Sat Oct 10 03:26:19 CEST 2009 + - big integers could become truncated (based on patch + by Strobl Anton). + - output format change: indent now adds a final newline, which is + more expected and more true to the documentation. + +2.25 Sat Aug 8 12:04:41 CEST 2009 + - the perl debugger completely breaks lvalue subs - try to work + around the issue. + - ignore RMAGICAL hashes w.r.t. CANONICAL. + - try to work around a possible char signedness issue on aix. + - require common sense. + +2.24 Sat May 30 08:25:45 CEST 2009 + - the incremental parser did not update its parse offset + pointer correctly when parsing utf8-strings (nicely + debugged by Martin Evans). + - appending a non-utf8-string to the incremental parser + in utf8 mode failed to upgrade the string. + - wording of parse error messages has been improved. + +2.232 Sun Feb 22 11:12:25 CET 2009 + - use an exponential algorithm to extend strings, to + help platforms with bad or abysmal==windows memory + allocater performance, at the expense of some memory + wastage (use shrink to recover this extra memory). + (nicely analysed by Dmitry Karasik). + +2.2311 Thu Feb 19 02:12:54 CET 2009 + - add a section "JSON and ECMAscript" to explain some + incompatibilities between the two (problem was noted by + various people). + - add t/20_faihu.t. + +2.231 Thu Nov 20 04:59:08 CET 2008 + - work around 5.10.0 magic bugs where manipulating magic values + (such as $1) would permanently damage them as perl would + ignore the magicalness, by making a full copy of the string, + reported by Dmitry Karasik. + - work around spurious warnings under older perl 5.8's. + +2.23 Mon Sep 29 05:08:29 CEST 2008 + - fix a compilation problem when perl is not using char * as, well, + char *. + - use PL_hexdigit in favour of rolling our own. + +2.2222 Sun Jul 20 18:49:00 CEST 2008 + - same game again, broken 5.10 finds yet another assertion + failure, and the workaround causes additional runtime warnings. + Work around the next assertion AND the warning. 5.10 seriously + needs to adjust it's attitude against working code. + 2.222 Sat Jul 19 06:15:34 CEST 2008 - you work around one -DDEBUGGING assertion bug in perl 5.10 just to hit the next one. work around this one, too.