diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c796425..9e61ec6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ## 2.0.0
 - JsonPatchDocument types now adds required converters using JsonConverterAttribute and converters no longer need to be set manually to JsonSerializerOptions https://github.com/Havunen/SystemTextJsonPatch/issues/18
 - netstandard2.0 target now depends on System.Text.Json v7
+- Small performance optimizations
 
 ## 1.2.0
 - Better support for patching arrays by index https://github.com/Havunen/SystemTextJsonPatch/issues/15
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fb0e60d..9d641d8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -60,16 +60,16 @@ This test deserializes a JSON patch document of 8 operations and applies the cha
 
 See [SystemTextJsonPatch.Benchmark](https://github.com/Havunen/SystemTextJsonPatch/tree/main/SystemTextJsonPatch.Benchmark) for more details.
 
-BenchmarkDotNet=v0.13.2, OS=Windows 11 (10.0.22000.978/21H2)
+BenchmarkDotNet=v0.13.5, OS=Windows 11 (10.0.22621.1413/22H2/2022Update/SunValley2)
 AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, 1 CPU, 32 logical and 16 physical cores
-.NET SDK=7.0.100-rc.1.22431.12
-  [Host]     : .NET 6.0.9 (6.0.922.41905), X64 RyuJIT AVX2
-  Job-URORCR : .NET 6.0.9 (6.0.922.41905), X64 RyuJIT AVX2
+.NET SDK=7.0.300-preview.23122.5
+  [Host]     : .NET 7.0.3 (7.0.323.6910), X64 RyuJIT AVX2
+  Job-STVRTF : .NET 7.0.3 (7.0.323.6910), X64 RyuJIT AVX2
 
 WarmupCount=2
 
-|              Method |       Mean |     Error |    StdDev |   Gen0 |   Gen1 | Allocated |
-|-------------------- |-----------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|-------:|----------:|
-| SystemTextJsonPatch |   7.233 us | 0.0381 us | 0.0356 us | 0.3738 |      - |   6.16 KB |
-|     MarvinJsonPatch | 979.525 us | 9.9310 us | 8.8036 us | 5.8594 | 3.9063 |  98.13 KB |
-| AspNetCoreJsonPatch |  26.645 us | 0.2023 us | 0.1892 us | 2.5940 | 0.0610 |  42.49 KB |
+|              Method |       Mean |      Error |     StdDev |   Gen0 |   Gen1 | Allocated |
+|-------------------- |-----------:|-----------:|-----------:|-------:|-------:|----------:|
+| SystemTextJsonPatch |   6.579 us |  0.0537 us |  0.0476 us | 0.3433 |      - |   5.69 KB |
+|     MarvinJsonPatch | 913.023 us | 14.2077 us | 16.9133 us | 5.8594 | 3.9063 |  96.02 KB |
+| AspNetCoreJsonPatch |  24.543 us |  0.2470 us |  0.2310 us | 2.6550 | 0.0610 |  43.61 KB |
diff --git a/SystemTextJsonPatch/Internal/ConversionResultProvider.cs b/SystemTextJsonPatch/Internal/ConversionResultProvider.cs
index 89bb99e..4ae99a9 100644
--- a/SystemTextJsonPatch/Internal/ConversionResultProvider.cs
+++ b/SystemTextJsonPatch/Internal/ConversionResultProvider.cs
@@ -160,7 +160,11 @@ private static bool TryConvertDecimalToNumber(decimal decimalValue, Type typeToC
 
     private static object? Deserialize(object? value, Type typeToConvertTo, JsonSerializerOptions options)
     {
-        if (typeToConvertTo == typeof(JsonNode))
+		if (typeToConvertTo == typeof(JsonElement))
+		{
+			return JsonSerializer.SerializeToElement(value, options);
+		}
+		if (typeToConvertTo == typeof(JsonNode))
         {
             return JsonSerializer.SerializeToNode(value, options);
         }
@@ -168,12 +172,21 @@ private static bool TryConvertDecimalToNumber(decimal decimalValue, Type typeToC
         {
             return JsonSerializer.SerializeToDocument(value, options);
         }
-        if (typeToConvertTo == typeof(JsonElement))
-        {
-            return JsonSerializer.SerializeToElement(value, options);
-        }
 
-        return JsonSerializer.Deserialize(JsonSerializer.Serialize(value, options), typeToConvertTo, options);
+		if (value is JsonElement jsonEl)
+		{
+			return JsonSerializer.Deserialize(jsonEl, typeToConvertTo, options);
+		}
+		if (value is JsonNode jsonNode)
+		{
+			return JsonSerializer.Deserialize(jsonNode, typeToConvertTo, options);
+		}
+		if (value is JsonDocument jsonDoc)
+		{
+			return JsonSerializer.Deserialize(jsonDoc, typeToConvertTo, options);
+		}
+
+		return JsonSerializer.Deserialize(JsonSerializer.SerializeToUtf8Bytes(value, options), typeToConvertTo, options);
     }
 
     private static bool IsNullableType(Type type)
diff --git a/SystemTextJsonPatch/Internal/ParsedPath.cs b/SystemTextJsonPatch/Internal/ParsedPath.cs
index b7a5ea6..78d1b1b 100644
--- a/SystemTextJsonPatch/Internal/ParsedPath.cs
+++ b/SystemTextJsonPatch/Internal/ParsedPath.cs
@@ -46,7 +46,9 @@ private static string[] ParsePath(string path)
 
         for (var i = 0; i < path.Length; i++)
         {
-            if (path[i] == '/')
+            var c = path[i];
+
+            if (c == '/')
             {
                 if (sb.Length > 0)
                 {
@@ -54,19 +56,20 @@ private static string[] ParsePath(string path)
                     sb.Length = 0;
                 }
             }
-            else if (path[i] == '~')
+            else if (c == '~')
             {
                 ++i;
-                if (i >= path.Length)
+				c = path[i];
+				if (i >= path.Length)
                 {
                     throw new JsonPatchException(Resources.FormatInvalidValueForPath(path), null);
                 }
 
-                if (path[i] == '0')
+                if (c == '0')
                 {
                     sb.Append('~');
                 }
-                else if (path[i] == '1')
+                else if (c == '1')
                 {
                     sb.Append('/');
                 }
@@ -77,7 +80,7 @@ private static string[] ParsePath(string path)
             }
             else
             {
-                sb.Append(path[i]);
+                sb.Append(c);
             }
         }