JSON benchmark

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The technical path explored in this PR was valuable in terms of performance gains (not game-changing, though) but at the cost of cluttering the code base a lot.

Hence, I'm closing this for now. We can reopen it in the future if/when we will need to focus on improving JSON encoding/decoding performance.