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I loaded a large JSON file in Python and watched memory jump from 43 MB to 808 MB. Here’s what happened and how streaming changed everything.

Programming computers used to be harder. Don’t get us wrong — today, people tend to solve harder problems with computers, but the fundamental act of programming is easier. We have high-level languages ...