Json-Variant exprs

[AdamGS]

Supersedes #8156

[codspeed-hq]

Merging this PR will degrade performance by 18.2%

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⚡ 11 improved benchmarks
❌ 103 regressed benchmarks
✅ 1414 untouched benchmarks
⏩ 10 skipped benchmarks¹

Warning

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Performance Changes

	Mode	Benchmark	BASE	HEAD	Efficiency
❌	Simulation	compare[48]	213 µs	301.1 µs	-29.26%
❌	Simulation	compare[50]	227.8 µs	319.7 µs	-28.76%
❌	Simulation	compare[49]	228.2 µs	318.3 µs	-28.31%
❌	Simulation	compare[44]	207.5 µs	288.1 µs	-27.96%
❌	Simulation	compare[46]	218.5 µs	303.1 µs	-27.89%
❌	Simulation	compare[47]	223.5 µs	309.9 µs	-27.86%
❌	Simulation	compare[40]	190.7 µs	263.8 µs	-27.71%
❌	Simulation	compare[44]	212.2 µs	292.9 µs	-27.57%
❌	Simulation	compare[45]	218.9 µs	301.5 µs	-27.4%
❌	Simulation	compare[43]	209.2 µs	287.9 µs	-27.32%
❌	Simulation	compare[42]	204.6 µs	281.4 µs	-27.29%
❌	Simulation	compare[40]	195.6 µs	268.9 µs	-27.25%
❌	Simulation	compare[43]	214.2 µs	293.1 µs	-26.92%
❌	Simulation	compare[42]	209.5 µs	286.5 µs	-26.88%
❌	Simulation	compare[41]	204.5 µs	279.4 µs	-26.81%
❌	Simulation	compare[41]	209.4 µs	284.5 µs	-26.41%
❌	Simulation	compare[31]	157.8 µs	214.1 µs	-26.3%
❌	Simulation	compare[39]	199.9 µs	271.1 µs	-26.27%
❌	Simulation	compare[38]	195.5 µs	264.9 µs	-26.18%
❌	Simulation	compare[36]	187.3 µs	252.9 µs	-25.95%
...	...	...	...	...	...

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_{Comparing adamg/variant-json-handling (b9ae199) with develop (fb489a1)}

Footnotes

1. 10 benchmarks were skipped, so the baseline results were used instead. If they were deleted from the codebase, click here and archive them to remove them from the performance reports. ↩