> if I'm reading this right, the author is saying that the parsed data takes _more_ space than the JSON version? JSON is a text format and interning it into pro

> if I'm reading this right, the author is saying that the parsed data takes _more_ space than the JSON version? JSON is a text format and interning it into proper data structures is likely going to take _less_ space, not more. Utf8 json strings will get converted to utf16 strings in some languages, doubling the size of strings in memory compared to the size on disk.