Vsevolod Tolstopyatov

Please take into account that performance is a delicate matter. Benchmarking is an analysis tool to supplement profiling, and without it, there is no interpretation of what library is "faster."...

We don't have a specific integration unfortunately, but we'd like to know what exactly is typically required for CircleCI integration

It indeed makes sense. This is rather a historical oddity where we first started with "what is public API" and then every other name just followed. If we ever consider...

In serialization, we leverage intrinsified `String::getChars` (pros: vectorized, much faster compact strings unpacking, no rangechecks) and also rely on the fact that our `CharArray`s are pooled, leading to no allocations.