makes sense. different parser needs more extra spaces. however the spaces for the parser-only should be freed at gc time, isn't it?
2012년 8월 6일 월요일 오전 5시 31분 3초 UTC+9, Joshua Gross 님의 말: > > There may be a better answer for this, but JSON is actually more rigidly > structured than standard JavaScript. So, it makes sense to me that a more > specialized parser would need more memory than just sending JavaScript code > to the VM. > > -- Joshua Gross > Christian / SpanDeX, Inc. / BA Candidate of Computer Science, UW-Madison > 2013 > 414-377-1041 / http://www.joshisgross.com > > On Aug 4, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Kei Son <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a huge JSON file, right, it's 78MB. > When I just require it from node-cli it takes 450MB memory footprint. I > can understand that is bloated 6x times because the JSON file is just a > string in the storage, but it needs spaces for indexing, making some > padding, optimization, linking and whatever else when it comes on memory. > > But the other hand, when I add some strings like "module.exports=" at the > top of the JSON file and require it as a normal js file, it takes only > 200MB. I thought requiring as JSON would be faster and smaller than as JS. > Because there are no seeking time for code-optimization and no extra > process at the Node.js side. > > What's different between two and why? > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
