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Use scala-offheap for performance

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
scala
Domain
performance

Research direction

Start by reviewing Jawn's parser implementation and the scala-offheap project to determine whether the proposed approach applies. Compare its likely impact on parser performance, latency, and memory characteristics; done means a clear applicability and measurement plan.

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Description

Not sure how applicable this is to Jawn, but should we look at using https://github.com/densh/scala-offheap to both improve the performance (but more importantly the latency/memory characteristics) of the parser?

Dominant language
Scala
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Merged PRs (30d)
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