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 # simdjson : Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second
 
-# A C++  library to see how fast we can parse JSON with complete validation.
+## A C++  library to see how fast we can parse JSON with complete validation.
 
 Goal: Speed up the parsing of JSON per se.