I spent yesterday building purejq , a pure-Python implementation of jq. I expected it to be the slow-but-portable option. Then I benchmarked it against the jq package on PyPI (the C bindings everyone uses to run jq from Python) and got this, on a 100k-object array, in-process: workload purejq j...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/adam2go/how-a-pure-python-jq-ended-up-40x-faster-than-the-c-bindings-cpb)