etoon 0.1.0

Fast TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation) encoder. Byte-identical to the TOON spec, 8x faster than toons and 2.7x faster than the official TS SDK.

etoon

Fast TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation) encoder for Python, Rust, and CLI.

8× faster than toons, 2.7× faster than the official TS SDK, byte-identical output.

中文說明

Performance

Measured on a 50-doc "neptune" payload (7480 bytes JSON → 4012 bytes TOON):

Encoder	Time	Relative
etoon (Python)	13.0 μs	1.00×
@toon-format/toon (TS)	35.6 μs	2.73×
py-rtoon	85.9 μs	6.59×
toons	106.4 μs	8.17×

CLI via stdin pipe (Claude / Bash workflows):

CLI	Per call	Relative
etoon	0.57 ms	1.00×
official toon	50.7 ms	89× slower

Install

Python

pip install etoon

Rust library

cargo add etoon --no-default-features

CLI binary

Download from GitHub Releases, or:

cargo install etoon

Usage

Python

import etoon
docs = [{"id": 1, "name": "Alice"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Bob"}]
print(etoon.dumps(docs))
# [2]{id,name}:
#   1,Alice
#   2,Bob

CLI (Bash pipe)

curl -s https://api.example.com/data | etoon
cat data.json | etoon -o output.toon

Rust

let json_bytes = serde_json::to_vec(&my_data)?;
let toon = etoon::toon::encode(&json_bytes)?;

Architecture

Python dict → orjson.dumps → JSON bytes → sonic-rs (SIMD parse) → walk → TOON string

Key optimizations:

• sonic-rs SIMD JSON parser (~7× faster than serde_json)
• orjson bridge — single boundary crossing (vs PyO3-based alternatives)
• uniform-order table fast path — skips 300 key lookups per 50-row table
• itoa specialized integer formatting

Compatibility

Output is byte-identical to the toons Python package (Apache 2.0) and the official toon-format/toon TypeScript SDK. Passes 111/111 TOON spec fixtures covering primitives, objects, arrays (primitive/tabular/nested/bulleted), and whitespace.

Limitations

• Integers > 2⁶³ are lossily coerced via f64 (works for most common big integers that happen to be representable; arbitrary-precision is not supported).
• Custom indent is hardcoded to 2 spaces (TOON spec default).
• TOON-specific features not yet supported: --fold-keys, --delimiter tab/pipe.

License

Apache 2.0. Test fixtures in tests/fixtures/ are sourced from the toons project (Apache 2.0).