ijson < 2.5 (as available in Debian 10) use the slow python backend by
default instead of the most efficient one available like modern ijson
versions, significantly slowing down cve checking. E.G.:
time ./support/scripts/pkg-stats --nvd-path ~/.nvd -p avahi --html foobar.html
Goes from
174,44s user 2,11s system 99% cpu 2:58,04 total
To
93,53s user 2,00s system 98% cpu 1:36,65 total
E.G. almost 2x as fast.
As a workaround, detect when the python backend is used and try to use a
more efficient one instead. Use the yajl2_cffi backend as recommended by
upstream, as it is most likely to work, and print a warning (and continue)
if we fail to load it.
The detection is slightly complicated by the fact that ijson.backends used
to be a reference to a backend module, but is nowadays a string (without the
ijson.backends prefix).
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
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