Add documentation for decoding RESPToken

[adam-fowler]

Also

• Added docs for building dynamic pipelines
• Fixed up some minor issues in index.md

[adam-fowler]

@heckj can you check these please

[github-actions]

✅ Pull request no significant performance differences ✅

Summary

New baseline 'pull_request' is WITHIN the 'main' baseline thresholds.

Full Benchmark Comparison

Comparing results between 'main' and 'pull_request'

Host 'd319c083de08' with 4 'x86_64' processors with 15 GB memory, running:
#12~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep  9 19:01:23 UTC 2025

ValkeyBenchmarks

Client: GET benchmark metrics

Malloc (total): results within specified thresholds, fold down for details.

Malloc (total) *	p0	p25	p50	p75	p90	p99	p100	Samples
main	81	83	84	86	87	87	87	6
pull_request	83	84	85	87	88	88	88	6
Δ	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
Improvement %	-2	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1	0

Client: GET benchmark | parallel 20 | 20 concurrent connections metrics

Malloc (total): results within specified thresholds, fold down for details.

Malloc (total) *	p0	p25	p50	p75	p90	p99	p100	Samples
main	95	100	102	107	108	115	115	23
pull_request	91	101	103	106	109	109	109	18
Δ	-4	1	1	-1	1	-6	-6	-5
Improvement %	4	-1	-1	1	-1	5	5	-5

Connection: GET benchmark metrics

Malloc (total): results within specified thresholds, fold down for details.

Malloc (total) *	p0	p25	p50	p75	p90	p99	p100	Samples
main	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	8
pull_request	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	8
Δ	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Improvement %	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Connection: GET benchmark – NoOpTracer metrics

Malloc (total): results within specified thresholds, fold down for details.

Malloc (total) *	p0	p25	p50	p75	p90	p99	p100	Samples
main	7	8	10	10	10	10	10	7
pull_request	7	8	10	10	10	10	10	7
Δ	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Improvement %	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Connection: Pipeline array benchmark metrics

Malloc (total): results within specified thresholds, fold down for details.

Malloc (total) *	p0	p25	p50	p75	p90	p99	p100	Samples
main	33	33	33	34	34	34	34	6
pull_request	33	33	34	34	34	34	34	6
Δ	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Improvement %	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0

Connection: Pipeline benchmark metrics

Malloc (total): results within specified thresholds, fold down for details.

Malloc (total) *	p0	p25	p50	p75	p90	p99	p100	Samples
main	33	33	33	34	34	34	34	6
pull_request	33	33	33	34	34	34	34	5
Δ	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1
Improvement %	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1

HashSlot – {user}.whatever metrics

Malloc (total): results within specified thresholds, fold down for details.

Malloc (total) *	p0	p25	p50	p75	p90	p99	p100	Samples
main	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	19
pull_request	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	19
Δ	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Improvement %	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

ValkeyCommandEncoder – Command with 7 words metrics

Malloc (total): results within specified thresholds, fold down for details.

Malloc (total) *	p0	p25	p50	p75	p90	p99	p100	Samples
main	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	738
pull_request	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	737
Δ	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1
Improvement %	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1

ValkeyCommandEncoder – Simple GET metrics

Malloc (total): results within specified thresholds, fold down for details.

Malloc (total) *	p0	p25	p50	p75	p90	p99	p100	Samples
main	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1881
pull_request	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1886
Δ	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Improvement %	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5

ValkeyCommandEncoder – Simple MGET 15 keys metrics

Malloc (total): results within specified thresholds, fold down for details.

Malloc (total) *	p0	p25	p50	p75	p90	p99	p100	Samples
main	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	360
pull_request	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	360
Δ	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Improvement %	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0