Release v1.2.2: The Streaming Update & Extreme Chunking 🚀

This major release introduces the StreamDecoder — a highly optimized suite of tools for parsing infinite JSON arrays and massive network streams without loading the entire payload into memory. It also brings unprecedented raw extraction speeds using a brand-new dedicated AVX2 assembly routine.

🌟 Key New Features

• StreamDecoder (Standard Next)
  A low-allocation stream parser that extracts and unmarshals objects sequentially from any io.Reader. Perfect for parsing multi-gigabyte files with minimal RAM footprint (~41MB) at speeds exceeding 470 MB/s.

• Zero-Allocation Async Streaming (NextChan)
  Need to process objects on the main thread while the parser runs in the background? NextChan provides asynchronous Producer-Consumer streaming. Unlike other libraries that cause massive GC pressure or data races, SilentJSON uses an internal Ring Buffer, achieving 0 GC allocations during streaming at ~378 MB/s.

• Extreme Stream Chunking (NextRawBlock)
  When you just need to slice a massive JSON array into smaller raw byte chunks (e.g., to proxy to a database or save to disk) without unmarshaling to Go structs. Powered by the new dedicated findObjectBoundariesEarlyExitASM routine, it scans and slices streams at an incredible ~4.1 GB/s with zero allocations!

🛠 Improvements & Optimizations

• Dedicated Early-Exit Assembly: Isolated the streaming assembly logic into findObjectBoundariesEarlyExitASM to ensure the core parser (UnmarshalArrayParallel) maintains its peak throughput (~3.3 GB/s) without any branching overhead.
• silent-chunker Example: Added a fully runnable, real-world utility in samples/silent-chunker/ demonstrating how to use NextRawBlock to rapidly slice massive JSON files into 10MB chunks and save them to disk.
• Documentation & Benchmarks: Completely updated README.md with new Mermaid.js charts, streaming benchmarks, and comprehensive NextRawBlock usage examples.

📊 Performance Summary (Streaming)

Feature	Throughput	Allocations
NextRawBlock (Raw chunk extraction)	~4150 MB/s	0
Next (Full Go Struct Binding)	~470 MB/s	Zero-alloc iteration
NextChan (Async Channel Ring Buffer)	~378 MB/s	Zero-alloc iteration

(Note: Standard streaming disables zero-copy strings for memory safety when reading from io.Reader buffers).

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