benchmark

benchmark/JSON_benchmark.cc

 #include <iostream>
 #include <fstream>
+#include <ctime>
 #include <JSON.h>
 
 int main(int argc, char** argv) {
+    time_t timer1, timer2;
+
     JSON json;
     std::ifstream infile(argv[1]);
-
+    time(&timer1);
     json << infile;
-
-    std::cout << json.size() << "\n";
+    time(&timer2);
+    std::cout << "Parsing from std::ifstream: " << difftime(timer2, timer1) << " sec\n";
 
     return 0;
 }

benchmark/benchmark.py

+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import json
+import sys
+import datetime
+
+a = datetime.datetime.now()
+data = json.loads(open(sys.argv[1]).read())
+b = datetime.datetime.now()
+
+print (b-a)

configure.ac

 AC_INIT([JSON], [1.0], [niels.lohmann@uni-rostock.de])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/JSON.cc])
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects])
 AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])
 
 AC_PROG_CXX