Original article: http://balisage.net/Proceedings/vol10/html/Lee01/BalisageVol10-Lee01.html http://balisage.net/Proceedings/vol10/html/Lee01/BalisageVol... So

Original article: http://balisage.net/Proceedings/vol10/html/Lee01/BalisageVol10-Lee01.html http://balisage.net/Proceedings/vol10/html/Lee01/BalisageVol... So his two JSON test cases are eval and jQuery. He does not use JSON.parse. So this shows that with a lot of hand waving around cases no-one likely cares about, XML is almost as performant as JSON, even if the code is way, way uglier. In an actual real project where you're probably passing lots of fiddly objects around we have no results.