Pros and cons of using JSON Pretty Print?

Question

Currently I am in the process of analyzing the pros and cons of producing a JSON output in different formats. What, according to you, would be the pros and cons of a JSON output with pretty print and the one without any formatting related to pretty printing with respect to stuff like

1. Performance.

2. Serialization/Deserialization.

3. Parsing or any other criteria.

I am using Java.

Answer 1

For all three points you mention, it is better not to use pretty printing. The only advantage of pretty printing is that it is easer to read by a human.

Answer 2

Without doing any kind of profiling, I would think that having no extra whitespace would be better for performance, if only marginally. It would save some bandwidth though.