I think it’s worth clarifying that I said I would “generally trust {author} more than {random internet person who hasn’t even tested author’s library}”. Are you

I think it’s worth clarifying that I said I would “generally trust {author} more than {random internet person who hasn’t even tested author’s library}”. Are you saying that you trust random internet person more by default? Trusting one more than the other is not the same as blindly trusting one and never running my own tests. The author who put in the effort to develop and benchmark their library deserves more benefit of the doubt than some drive-by commenter, in my opinion. If I needed a high performance JSON parsing library, I would definitely set up a benchmark representative of my use case, and test a few different libraries. JSON libraries are usually pretty ergonomic and easy to swap between, so it shouldn’t be an arduous task. Your very first two comments in this thread were far more insightful than {random internet person} just saying over and over that simdjson can’t possibly be slower, and those comments of yours on their own merit would have removed the need for me to leave any comments whatsoever to defend the original HN post, even without needing to observe that you’re an expert in this field, which just lends further credibility to your comments. I think the rest of the discussion that occurred was really interesting to watch!