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I often have to pluck out attributes from streams of json records (1 json object per line) - often millions/billions.

jq is almost always the bottleneck in the pipeline at 100% CPU - so much so that we often add an fgrep to the left side of the pipeline to minimize the input to jq as much as possible.



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