use strict;
use warnings;

use JSON::XS qw(encode_json);
use Benchmark qw(cmpthese);

my $obj = [ map {
    +{
        name => 'foo',
        age => 123,
        fg => !!0,
    };
} 0 .. 100];

{
    my $src;
    sub my_encode_ver2 {
        my $obj = shift;
        $src = '[';
        {
            for (@{$obj}) {
                $src .= '{"name":"' . $_->{'name'} . '","age":' . ($_->{age} + 0) . ',"fg":' . ($_->{fg}? 'true':'false') . '},';
            }
            $src = substr($src, 0, -1);
        }
        $src .= ']';
        return $src;
    }
};

sub my_encode {
    my $obj = shift;
    return '['
        . do {
            my $src;
            for (@{$obj}) {
                $src .= '{"name":"' . $_->{'name'} . '","age":' . ($_->{age} + 0) . ',"fg":' . ($_->{fg}? 'true':'false') . '},';
            }
            substr($src, 0, -1);
        }
        . ']';
}

cmpthese -1, {
    "my_encode" => sub { my_encode($obj) },
    "my_encode_ver2" => sub { my_encode_ver2($obj) },
    "JSON::XS" => sub { encode_json($obj) }
};

#                   Rate      my_encode my_encode_ver2       JSON::XS
# my_encode      49123/s             --            -5%           -29%
# my_encode_ver2 51661/s             5%             --           -25%
# JSON::XS       69200/s            41%            34%             --