slight refactor to avoid so much serde work and more tests

[selfup]

Just a slight refactor to avoid so much serde work

[selfup]

Travis seems to be failing to compile our repo with nightly? Hmm...

[selfup]

Tried to build on the new nightly (2016-06-20) that Travis pulled, and it failed locally. Went back to 2016-06-09 and it works fine. Seems that Serde is always a week behind.

Sean Griffin mentioned this with Diesel as well. He recommends using the previous weeks nightly.

[selfup]

Ok awesome. Travis built on 06-10. Going to upgrade to 06-15

Built on 06-15. Back to normal. Will use VM in the future to test nightlies.

Wasn't sure how to specify versions on Travis.

Now I know haha

[selfup]

@cite-reader @pindell-matt

Ok so you can indeed specify the nightly version with Travis CI, I'll use a local VM to test future versions, and then tell Travis which nightly to pull. Will also need to update Documentation often, but that's fine.

PR is ready to be merged

[selfup]

Seems pretty fast to me!

[selfup]

The slowest operation (out of three benchmarks) takes:

0.06634 milliseconds

OR

0.00006634 seconds

The fastest operation (out of three benchmarks) takes:

0.00138 milliseconds

OR

0.00000138 seconds

On Linux

[pindell-matt]

Looks good to me!