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Parallel JSON parsing on the GPU with compute shaders

Slurpjson is a research project that parses JSON entirely on the GPU using WebGPU compute shaders, breaking parsing into parallel prefix scans to create a structural tape. It aims to explore highly parallelizable approaches to JSON processing, inspired by Raph Levien's work on invitingly parallel problems.

Background

Traditional JSON parsing is typically CPU-bound and sequential, limiting performance for large datasets. This project explores offloading parsing to GPUs via compute shaders to leverage massive parallelism.

Source
Lobsters
Published
Jul 28, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Score
6.0 / 10