diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index b54125d0..7605d627 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -7,3 +7,6 @@
 [submodule "dependencies/json11"]
 	path = dependencies/json11
 	url = https://github.com/dropbox/json11.git
+[submodule "dependencies/fastjson"]
+	path = dependencies/fastjson
+	url = https://github.com/mikeando/fastjson.git
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 06413cfb..6c9ae45d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 .PHONY: clean cleandist
 
-CXXFLAGS =  -std=c++11  -march=native -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Iinclude  -Ibenchmark/linux  -Idependencies/rapidjson/include -Idependencies/sajson/include -Idependencies/json11 
+CXXFLAGS =  -std=c++11  -march=native -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Iinclude  -Ibenchmark/linux  -Idependencies/rapidjson/include -Idependencies/sajson/include -Idependencies/json11 -Idependencies/fastjson/src -Idependencies/fastjson/include 
 
 ifeq ($(SANITIZE),1)
 	CXXFLAGS += -g3 -O0  -fsanitize=address -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fsanitize=undefined
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ MINIFIERLIBFILES=src/jsonminifier.cpp
 RAPIDJSON_INCLUDE:=dependencies/rapidjson/include
 SAJSON_INCLUDE:=dependencies/sajson/include
 JSON11_INCLUDE:=dependencies/json11/json11.hpp
+FASTJSON_INCLUDE:=dependencies/include/fastjson/fastjson.h
 
 LIBS=$(RAPIDJSON_INCLUDE) $(SAJSON_INCLUDE)
 
@@ -49,6 +50,8 @@ $(RAPIDJSON_INCLUDE):
 $(JSON11_INCLUDE):
 	git submodule update --init --recursive
 
+$(FASTJSON_INCLUDE):
+	git submodule update --init --recursive
 
 bench: benchmarks/bench.cpp $(RAPIDJSON_INCLUDE) $(HEADERS)
 	$(CXX) -std=c++11 -O3 -o $@ benchmarks/bench.cpp -I$(RAPIDJSON_INCLUDE) -Iinclude  -march=native -lm -Wall -Wextra -Wno-narrowing
diff --git a/benchmark/parsingcompetition.cpp b/benchmark/parsingcompetition.cpp
index bfed68a6..1895f066 100644
--- a/benchmark/parsingcompetition.cpp
+++ b/benchmark/parsingcompetition.cpp
@@ -11,13 +11,25 @@
 #include "rapidjson/writer.h"
 #include "json11.cpp"
 #include "sajson.h"
-
-
+#include "fastjson.cpp"
+#include "fastjson_dom.cpp"
 
 
 using namespace rapidjson;
 using namespace std;
 
+
+// fastjson has a tricky interface
+void on_json_error( void *, const fastjson::ErrorContext& ec) {
+  std::cerr<<"ERROR: "<<ec.mesg<<std::endl;
+}
+bool fastjson_parse(const char *input) {
+  fastjson::Token token;
+  fastjson::dom::Chunk chunk;
+  std::string error_message;
+  return fastjson::dom::parse_string(input, &token, &chunk, 0, &on_json_error, NULL);
+}
+
 int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
   if (argc < 2) {
     cerr << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " <jsonfile>\n";
@@ -49,7 +61,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
 
   int repeat = 10;
   int volume = p.second;
-  BEST_TIME("json_parse", json_parse(p.first, p.second, pj), true, , repeat, volume, true);
+  BEST_TIME("simdjson", json_parse(p.first, p.second, pj), true, , repeat, volume, true);
 
   rapidjson::Document d;
 
@@ -72,7 +84,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
   std::string json11err;
   BEST_TIME("dropbox (json11)     ", json11::Json::parse(buffer,json11err).is_null(), false, memcpy(buffer, p.first, p.second), repeat, volume, true);
 
-  free(buffer);
+  BEST_TIME("fastjson             ", fastjson_parse(buffer), true, memcpy(buffer, p.first, p.second), repeat, volume, true);
   free(p.first);
   free(ast_buffer);
   deallocate_ParsedJson(pj_ptr);
diff --git a/dependencies/fastjson b/dependencies/fastjson
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..485f994a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dependencies/fastjson
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 485f994a61a64ac73fa6a40d4d639b99b463563b