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Table 1 The nmrstarlib library performance test against NMR-STAR formatted files using pure Python and Python with C extension and against JSONized NMR-STAR files using the standard Python library json parser and the UltraJSON (ujson) 3rd party library

From: A fast and efficient python library for interfacing with the Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank

   

NMR-STAR 2.1

NMR-STAR 3.1

JSONized NMR-STAR 2.1

JSONized NMR-STAR 3.1

Number of files

11,270

11,244

11,270

11,244

Total size of files, GB

1.1

1.8

4.6

22.0

Time, sec

Pure Python

json

326

1,100

30

130

Python with C extension

aujson

320

423

27

126

Average reading speed, KB/sec

Pure Python

json

3,290

1,700

158,549

176,479

Python with C extension

aujson

3,351

4,421

176,166

182,082

  1. aWe added support for the ujson library for versions of Python starting with Python 3.6, because the ujson library does not provide methods to keep the dict data structure in order when parsing from JSON files; however, starting with Python 3.6, the dict data structure is ordered by default