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Some debug-stepping later it turns out it’s… JSON! They’re parsing JSON. A whopping 10 megabytes worth of JSON with some 63k item entries. […] But 10 megs? That’s nothing! And using sscanf may not be optimal but surely it’s not that bad? Well… […] I had no idea most sscanf implementations called strlen [after every character read] so I can’t blame the developer who wrote this.

Otro ejemplo más de lo rota que está la informática.

Actualización — 1 de marzo de 2021

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