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Asked: 2026-05-11T20:24:13+00:00

I’m building classes that interface with the Twitter API, and I’m wondering whether PHP’s

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I’m building classes that interface with the Twitter API, and I’m wondering whether PHP’s built-in XML or JSON parser is faster? Twitter will send me the same data in either format, so PHP performance will determine my choice. I’m using php_apc, so you can disregard parse time and assume I’m running off bytecode.

Thanks!

more: I’m just looking to get associative arrays from the data. I’m not doing tree walking, node iteration or anything too complex. The format will always be the same. (I hope!)

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  1. Editorial Team

    I didn’t do any benchmark but…

    Since JSON is only a description of nested string sequences, without the need to offer a DOM interface, attributes parsing and other subtle stuff, my guess is that a JSON parser is WAY faster that an XML parser.

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