[bungle]

Integrating with server software, the performance is nice to have, as you can have say 100 kRPS requests coming in that need some jq-like logic. For CLI tool, like you said, the performance of any of them is ok, for most of the cases.

[robmccoll]

jq is probably faster than storage, the network, compression, or something else in your stack and not your bottleneck.