Don't know if you'll see this, but I really like your work. I read your dissertation at least twice, it's well written and informative.

In my day job I have multiple large json files, used in an internal in-house application, into which I serialize a database, and working with them is much faster than using the database (for some workloads). Although the main reason to do so is just for using git for source control.

In the future I plan on migrating all the code to working off the json files, but that won't happen for some time yet.

I was looking for a fast json library and that's why I discovered your paper and your project, although that was some months after I have started working on that project and it was too late to change.

Currently I use the (very slow) json.net library for most serialization/deserialization, it's fast enough for the specific places where I use them, but for some specific workload that has to be fast I use RapidJson (the code in that part is already c++), but only its streaming parser, which blazingly fast, at the cost of some development. I tried using simdjson but had trouble compiling it at the time.

By the way, in your dissertation you don't mention RapidJson, nor json.net, nor simdjson. Is there a reason why you didn't compare them?