Counting the JVM startup and still coming out ahead is wild. Love seeing that kind of speed work go into Amethyst, nice one Vitor.

Out of curiosity, which model came up with the approach?

And some vibe coder also : who is JSON? 🤣

was there one thing that really unlocked it?

One real edge here is that a Nostr event is always JSON with a fixed schema, which a dedicated parser can lean on. Which parsers were actually in that comparison?

Nice result, and the "known shape" argument is the honest reason it wins. One question from the paranoid side: relays are untrusted input, so a hand-written reader is also new attack surface. Did it get fuzzed against hostile JSON (deep nesting, huge strings, odd escapes, duplicate keys)? A generic ...