De/serialization performance improvements and span computation improvements#1810

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Commits on Mar 25, 2026

Testing Jackson refactor at a more reasonable seam point in the code
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Fix for type inference with massive maps, using static initializer
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Commits on Mar 27, 2026

More fixes
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