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Adds a synchronous Nitro hybrid wrapper around Glaze (HybridJsonParser) under modules/ExpensifyNitroUtils, plus benchmark instrumentation in the existing react-native-onyx patch to time JSON.parse and JSON.stringify during Onyx startup.

Result: on a heavy account (~9.8k rows), the Glaze-backed parser is 30-45% slower than Hermes' built-in JSON.parse end-to-end. The bottleneck is JSI marshalling, not raw parser throughput - every parsed value has to cross the JS<->native boundary and rebuild Hermes-native objects from outside the engine, which is exactly the cost Hermes' built-in parser avoids by writing directly to its own heap.

Related: #89652

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Android: Native
Android: mWeb Chrome
iOS: Native
iOS: mWeb Safari
MacOS: Chrome / Safari

@rinej @claude
[Benchmark only] Glaze-backed JSON parser via Nitro — not for merge
1b43c98 
Adds a synchronous Nitro hybrid wrapper around Glaze (HybridJsonParser) under
modules/ExpensifyNitroUtils, plus benchmark instrumentation in the existing
react-native-onyx patch to time JSON.parse and JSON.stringify during Onyx
startup.

Result: on a heavy account (~9.8k rows), the Glaze-backed parser is 30-45%
slower than Hermes' built-in JSON.parse end-to-end. The bottleneck is JSI
marshalling, not raw parser throughput — every parsed value has to cross the
JS<->native boundary and rebuild Hermes-native objects from outside the
engine, which is exactly the cost Hermes' built-in parser avoids by writing
directly to its own heap.

Vendored Glaze headers (header-only, MIT-licensed) are committed in-tree.
This branch is intended as a benchmark artifact tied to Expensify#89652, not as
mergeable production code: the patch instrumentation runs in production
builds, and the vendored library lives in repo.

Related: Expensify#89652

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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⚠️ This PR is possibly changing native code and/or updating libraries, it may cause problems with HybridApp. Please check if any patch updates are required in the HybridApp repo and run an AdHoc build to verify that HybridApp will not break. Ask Contributor Plus for help if you are not sure how to handle this. ⚠️

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