This PR introduces native Go implementations for two standard library functions in Jsonnet: manifestYamlDoc and escapeStringJson. These enhancements are a response to performance challenges, especially noticeable in cases where quote_keys=false is set. This issue is documented in google/jsonnet#1019 and also holds for the Go implementation.
Benchmarks
Running Before Test... (10s)
Running After Test... (10s)
benchmark old ns/op new ns/op delta
Benchmark_Builtin_escapeStringJson-8 9061562 3082901 -65.98%
Benchmark_Builtin_manifestYamlDoc-8 12660395 3559494 -71.88%
On a large, non-public codebase generating megabytes of yaml from jsonnet, the runtime decreased from over 10 minutes to 8 seconds.
This PR introduces native Go implementations for two standard library functions in Jsonnet: manifestYamlDoc and escapeStringJson. These enhancements are a response to performance challenges, especially noticeable in cases where
quote_keys=falseis set. This issue is documented in google/jsonnet#1019 and also holds for the Go implementation.Benchmarks
On a large, non-public codebase generating megabytes of yaml from jsonnet, the runtime decreased from over 10 minutes to 8 seconds.