Should You Process JSON One by One or All at Once? What’s the Best Approach?

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It really depends on your use case, but here’s my take:

Processing JSON one by one is better for large datasets because it’s memory-efficient. But if your JSON is small, processing it all at once is faster and easier to code.

I’ve used `json.load()` for all-at-once and `ijson` for one-by-one. Both work great, but `ijson` is a bit slower.

For real-world examples, think of log files—streaming is better. For config files, just load it all.

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