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by fretlessjazz 5881 days ago
As somebody who has dealt with ActiveResource in a production environment, thank-you!

My company noticed an absolutely whopping performance boost when we dropped XML in favor of JSON for a transport format, fwiw. Ruby has quite possibly the slowest XML parsing libraries on the block (even when you wrap libxml), and we avoid parsing XML at all costs now.