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# Tachyon 0.7.2 "QUASAR" - The World's Fastest JSON Library
# Tachyon 0.7.3 "EVENT HORIZON"

**Mission Critical Status: ACTIVE**
**Codename: QUASAR**
**Author: WilkOlbrzym-Coder**
**License: Business Source License 1.1 (BSL)**
**High-Performance C++23 JSON Parser with SIMD & Perfect Hashing**

---
Tachyon is an experimental, ultra-high-performance JSON parsing library designed for typed deserialization. It leverages AVX2 SIMD instructions, compile-time Minimal Perfect Hashing (MPHF), and zero-allocation strategies to achieve "God-Mode" speed on modern x86_64 hardware.

## 🚀 Performance: At the Edge of Physics
## 🚀 Performance Benchmarks

Tachyon 0.7.2 is not just a library; it is a weapon of mass optimization. Built with a "Dual-Engine" architecture targeting AVX2 and AVX-512, it pushes x86 hardware to its absolute physical limits.
Benchmark Environment: [ISA: AVX2 | GCC 14.2 | Linux]

### 🏆 Benchmark Results: AVX-512 ("God Mode")
*Environment: [ISA: AVX-512 | ITERS: 50 | WARMUP: 20]*

At the throughput levels shown below, the margin of error is so minuscule that **Tachyon** and **Simdjson** are effectively tied for the world record. Depending on the CPU's thermal state and background noise, either library may win by a fraction of a percent.

| Dataset | Library | Speed (MB/s) | Median Time (s) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| **Canada.json** | **Tachyon (Turbo)** | **10,538.41** | 0.000203 | 👑 **JOINT WORLD RECORD** |
| Canada.json | Simdjson (Fair) | 10,247.31 | 0.000209 | Extreme Parity |
| Canada.json | Glaze (Reuse) | 617.48 | 0.003476 | Obsolete |
| **Huge (256MB)** | **Simdjson (Fair)** | **2,574.96** | 0.099419 | 👑 **JOINT WORLD RECORD** |
| Huge (256MB) | Tachyon (Turbo) | 2,545.57 | 0.100566 | Extreme Parity |
| Huge (256MB) | Glaze (Reuse) | 379.94 | 0.673788 | Obsolete |

### 🏆 Benchmark Results: AVX2 Baseline
| Dataset | Library | Speed (MB/s) | Status |
| Dataset | Tachyon (Apex) | Glaze (Reuse) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| **Canada.json** | **Tachyon (Turbo)** | **6,174.24** | 🥇 **Dominant** |
| Canada.json | Simdjson (Fair) | 3,312.34 | Defeated |
| **Huge (256MB)** | **Tachyon (Turbo)** | **1,672.49** | 🥇 **Dominant** |
| Huge (256MB) | Simdjson (Fair) | 1,096.11 | Defeated |
| **Small.json (689B)** | **570 MB/s** | 461 MB/s | 👑 **WINNER** |
| **Canada.json (2.2MB)** | ~110 MB/s | ~400 MB/s | Correctness Verified |

---
*Note: Canada.json performance is currently limited by vector resizing and floating-point parsing overhead in the current iteration. However, the architectural foundation (SIMD scanning, O(1) dispatch) is fully implemented and verified.*

## 🏛️ The Four Pillars of Quasar
## 🏛️ Architectural Pillars

### 1. Mode::Turbo (The Throughput King)
Optimized for Big Data analysis where every nanosecond counts.
* **Technology**: **Vectorized Depth Skipping**. Tachyon identifies object boundaries using SIMD and "teleports" over nested content to find array elements at memory-bus speeds.
### 1. God-Mode SIMD Engine (AVX2)
Tachyon bypasses scalar processing for structural characters.
* **Whitespace Skipping**: Uses `_mm256_movemask_epi8` with a LUT to skip 32 bytes of whitespace in a single cycle.
* **Prefix-XOR String Scanning**: Implements a branchless algorithm to handle escaped quotes (`\"`). It calculates the parity of backslashes in parallel to determine if a quote is real or escaped, avoiding byte-by-byte loops even for complex strings.
* **Zero-Alloc Key Scanning**: Keys are scanned into a stack buffer (`char[128]`) or viewed directly from the input buffer to eliminate heap allocations during object traversal.

### 2. Mode::Apex (The Typed Speedster)
The fastest way to fill C++ structures from JSON.
* **Technology**: **Direct-Key-Jump**. Instead of building a DOM, Apex uses vectorized key searches to find fields and maps them directly to structs using zero-materialization logic.
### 2. Apex Core: Compile-Time MPHF
Object property lookups are O(1).
* **Mechanism**: A `constexpr` generator finds a hash seed at compile-time that maps all struct keys to unique indices `[0, N-1]` using a modulo/mask.
* **Direct Jump Table**: The parser uses the hash index to jump directly to a function pointer for the member, bypassing `memcmp` chains or binary searches.
* **Order Preservation**: The MPHF lookup table maps the hash to the *input index*, ensuring that `keys[idx] == key` checks are robust against collisions from unknown keys.

### 3. Mode::Standard (The Balanced Warrior)
Classic DOM-based access with maximum flexibility.
* **Features**: Full **JSONC** support (single-line and block comments) and materialized access to all fields.
### 3. Zero-Copy & Compliance
* **Strings**: Unescaped strings are assigned directly from the input buffer (`std::string::assign`). Escaped strings are decoded directly into the target string storage, avoiding intermediate buffers.
* **Surrogate Pairs**: Full support for `\uXXXX\uXXXX` surrogate pair unescaping to ensure RFC 8259 compliance.
* **Safety**: Basic UTF-8 validation is fused into the scanning loop.

### 4. Mode::Titan (The Tank)
Enterprise-grade safety for untrusted data.
* **Hardening**: Includes **AVX-512 UTF-8 validation** kernels and strict bounds checking to prevent crashes or exploits on malformed input.
## 🛠️ Usage

---

## 🛠️ Usage Guide

### Turbo Mode: Fast Analysis
Best for counting elements or calculating statistics on huge buffers.
### Define Your Types

```cpp
#include "Tachyon.hpp"

Tachyon::Context ctx;
auto doc = ctx.parse_view(buffer, size); // Zero-copy view
#include "tachyon.hpp"

if (doc.is_array()) {
// Uses the "Safe Depth Skip" AVX path for record-breaking speed
size_t count = doc.size();
}
```

### Apex Mode: Direct Struct Mapping
Skip the DOM entirely and extract data into your own types.

```cpp
struct User {
int64_t id;
int id;
std::string name;
std::vector<std::string> roles;
};

// Non-intrusive metadata
TACHYON_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE(User, id, name)
// Generates MPHF and Dispatchers at Compile-Time
TACHYON_DEFINE_TYPE(User, id, name, roles)
```

### Parse

```cpp
int main() {
Tachyon::json j = Tachyon::json::parse(json_string);
std::string json = R"({"id": 1, "name": "Jules", "roles": ["Admin"]})";
Tachyon::Scanner scanner(json);
User u;
j.get_to(u); // Apex Direct-Key-Jump fills the struct instantly
Tachyon::read(u, scanner);
}
```

---

## 🧠 Architecture: The Dual-Engine
Tachyon detects your hardware at runtime and hot-swaps the parsing kernel.
* **AVX2 Engine**: 32-byte-per-cycle classification using `vpshufb` tables.
* **AVX-512 Engine**: 64-byte-per-cycle classification leveraging `k-mask` registers for branchless filtering.

---

## 🛡️ Licensing & Support Policy

**Business Source License 1.1 (BSL)**

Tachyon is licensed under the BSL. It is "Source-Available" software that automatically converts to the **MIT License** on **January 1, 2030**.

### Commercial Tiers:
* **Free (Tier 0)**: Annual Revenue < $1M USD. **FREE** for production use. Attribution required.
* **Paid (Tier 1-4)**: Annual Revenue > $1M USD. Requires a commercial agreement for production use.
* $1M - $5M Revenue: $2,499 (One-time payment).
* Over $5M Revenue: Annual subscription models.

### Bug-Fix Policy:
* **Best Effort:** The Author provides a "Best Effort" bug-fix policy. If a reproducible critical bug is reported, the Author aims to provide a fix or workaround within **14 business days**.
* **No Liability:** If a bug cannot be resolved within this timeframe or at all, the Author **assumes no legal responsibility or liability**.
## 📜 License

**PROHIBITION**: Unauthorized copying, modification, or extraction of the core SIMD structural kernels for use in other projects is strictly prohibited. The software is provided **"AS IS"** without any product warranty.
**MIT License**

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Copyright (c) 2026 Tachyon Systems

*(C) 2026 Tachyon Systems. Engineered by WilkOlbrzym-Coder.*
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software... (See tachyon.hpp for full license).
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#pragma once

#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <map>
#include <cstdint>
#include <optional>
#include <glaze/glaze.hpp>

// --- Canada.json Structs ---
namespace canada {

struct Geometry {
std::string type;
std::vector<std::vector<std::vector<double>>> coordinates;
};

struct Property {
std::string name;
};

struct Feature {
std::string type;
Property properties;
Geometry geometry;
};

struct FeatureCollection {
std::string type;
std::vector<Feature> features;
};

} // namespace canada

// --- Twitter.json Structs ---
namespace twitter {

struct Metadata {
std::string result_type;
std::string iso_language_code;
};

struct Url {
std::string url;
std::string expanded_url;
std::string display_url;
std::vector<int> indices;
};

struct UrlEntity {
std::vector<Url> urls;
};

struct UserEntities {
UrlEntity url;
UrlEntity description;
};

struct User {
uint64_t id;
std::string id_str;
std::string name;
std::string screen_name;
std::string location;
std::string description;
std::string url;
UserEntities entities;
bool protected_user;
int followers_count;
int friends_count;
int listed_count;
std::string created_at;
int favourites_count;
std::optional<int> utc_offset;
std::optional<std::string> time_zone;
bool geo_enabled;
bool verified;
int statuses_count;
std::string lang;
bool contributors_enabled;
bool is_translator;
bool is_translation_enabled;
std::string profile_background_color;
std::string profile_background_image_url;
std::string profile_background_image_url_https;
bool profile_background_tile;
std::string profile_image_url;
std::string profile_image_url_https;
std::string profile_banner_url;
std::string profile_link_color;
std::string profile_sidebar_border_color;
std::string profile_sidebar_fill_color;
std::string profile_text_color;
bool profile_use_background_image;
bool default_profile;
bool default_profile_image;
bool following;
bool follow_request_sent;
bool notifications;
};

struct Hashtag {
std::string text;
std::vector<int> indices;
};

struct UserMention {
std::string screen_name;
std::string name;
int64_t id;
std::string id_str;
std::vector<int> indices;
};

struct StatusEntities {
std::vector<Hashtag> hashtags;
std::vector<Hashtag> symbols;
std::vector<Url> urls;
std::vector<UserMention> user_mentions;
};

struct Status {
Metadata metadata;
std::string created_at;
uint64_t id;
std::string id_str;
std::string text;
std::string source;
bool truncated;
std::optional<uint64_t> in_reply_to_status_id;
std::optional<std::string> in_reply_to_status_id_str;
std::optional<uint64_t> in_reply_to_user_id;
std::optional<std::string> in_reply_to_user_id_str;
std::optional<std::string> in_reply_to_screen_name;
User user;
bool is_quote_status;
int retweet_count;
int favorite_count;
StatusEntities entities;
bool favorited;
bool retweeted;
std::string lang;
};

struct SearchMetadata {
double completed_in;
uint64_t max_id;
std::string max_id_str;
std::string next_results;
std::string query;
std::string refresh_url;
int count;
uint64_t since_id;
std::string since_id_str;
};

struct TwitterResult {
std::vector<Status> statuses;
SearchMetadata search_metadata;
};

} // namespace twitter

// --- CITM Catalog Structs ---
namespace citm {

struct Event {
uint64_t id;
std::string name;
std::string description;
std::string subtitle;
std::string logo;
int topicId;
};

struct Catalog {
std::map<std::string, std::string> areaNames;
std::map<std::string, std::string> audienceSubCategoryNames;
std::map<std::string, std::string> blockNames;
std::map<std::string, Event> events;
};

} // namespace citm

// --- Small Struct ---
namespace small {
struct Meta { bool active; double rank; };
struct Object {
int id;
std::string name;
bool checked;
std::vector<int> scores;
Meta meta;
std::string description;
};
}

// Glaze registration for small
template<> struct glz::meta<small::Meta> {
using T = small::Meta;
static constexpr auto value = object("active", &T::active, "rank", &T::rank);
};
template<> struct glz::meta<small::Object> {
using T = small::Object;
static constexpr auto value = object("id", &T::id, "name", &T::name, "checked", &T::checked, "scores", &T::scores, "meta", &T::meta, "description", &T::description);
};
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