Several holidays ago, I got a bee in my bonnet and wrote a fast JSON parser whose parsed AST fits in a single contiguous block of memory. The code was small and simple and the performance was generally on-par with RapidJSON, so I stopped and moved on with my life. Well, at the end of 2016, Rich Geldreich shared that he'd also written a high-performance JSON parser. A while back I wrote a *really*