[electromech]

I'd be curious how the performance compares to this Rust jq clone:

cargo install --locked jaq

(you might also be able to add RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native" to enable optimizations for your specific CPU family)

"cargo install" is an underrated feature of Rust for exactly the kind of use case described in the article. Because it builds the tools from source, you can opt into platform-specific features/instructions that often aren't included in binaries built for compatibility with older CPUs. And no need to clone the repo or figure out how to build it; you get that for free.

jaq[1] and yq[2] are my go-to options anytime I'm using jq and need a quick and easy performance boost.

[1] https://github.com/01mf02/jaq

[2] https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

[oguz-ismail]

> I'd be curious how the performance compares to this Rust jq clone

Every once in a while I test jaq against jq and gojq with my jq solution to AoC 2022 day 13 https://gist.github.com/oguz-ismail/8d0957dfeecc4f816ffee79d...

It's still behind both as of today

[saghm]

As a bonus that people might not be aware of, in the cases where you do want to use the repo directly (either because there isn't a published package or maybe you want the latest commit that hasn't been released), `cargo install` also has a `--git` flag that lets you specify a URL to a repo. I've used this a number of times in the past, especially as an easy way for me to quickly install personal stuff that I throw together and push to a repo without needing to put together any sort of release process or manually copy around binaries to personal machines and keep track of the exact commits I've used to build them.