add whatsnew and remove unwanted benchmarks

Author: hasnain2808

asv_bench/benchmarks/io/json.py

@@ -53,36 +53,18 @@ def time_read_json_lines(self, index):
     def time_read_json_lines_concat(self, index):
         concat(read_json(self.fname, orient="records", lines=True, chunksize=25000))
 
-    def time_read_json_lines_concat_hundred(self, index):
-        concat(read_json(self.fname, orient="records", lines=True, chunksize=100))
-
-    def time_read_json_lines_concat_ten_thousand(self, index):
-        concat(read_json(self.fname, orient="records", lines=True, chunksize=10000))
-
     def time_read_json_lines_nrows(self, index):
-        read_json(self.fname, orient="records", lines=True, nrows=15000)
-
-    def time_read_json_lines_nrows_larger(self, index):
-        read_json(self.fname, orient="records", lines=True, nrows=45000)
+        read_json(self.fname, orient="records", lines=True, nrows=25000)
 
     def peakmem_read_json_lines(self, index):
         read_json(self.fname, orient="records", lines=True)
 
     def peakmem_read_json_lines_concat(self, index):
         concat(read_json(self.fname, orient="records", lines=True, chunksize=25000))
 
-    def peakmem_read_json_lines_concat_hundred(self, index):
-        concat(read_json(self.fname, orient="records", lines=True, chunksize=100))
-
-    def peakmem_read_json_lines_concat_ten_thousand(self, index):
-        concat(read_json(self.fname, orient="records", lines=True, chunksize=10000))
-
     def peakmem_read_json_lines_nrows(self, index):
         read_json(self.fname, orient="records", lines=True, nrows=15000)
 
-    def peakmem_read_json_lines_nrows_larger(self, index):
-        read_json(self.fname, orient="records", lines=True, nrows=45000)
-
 
 class ToJSON(BaseIO):
 

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.1.0.rst

@@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ Other enhancements
   and :class:`~pandas.io.stata.StataWriterUTF8` (:issue:`26599`).
 - :meth:`HDFStore.put` now accepts `track_times` parameter. Parameter is passed to ``create_table`` method of ``PyTables`` (:issue:`32682`).
 - Make :class:`pandas.core.window.Rolling` and :class:`pandas.core.window.Expanding` iterable（:issue:`11704`)
+- :meth:`~pandas.io.json.read_json` now accepts `nrows` parameter. (:issue:`33916`).
 
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