diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md
index fdacec0..0fce779 100644
--- a/Readme.md
+++ b/Readme.md
@@ -92,14 +92,14 @@ minifyFiles(["file1.json", "file2.json"], true);
 On AMD Ryzen 7 4800H:
 
 - minifyString: minijson is 4178 times faster than jsonMinify
-- minifyFiles: minijson is 1198 times faster than jsonMinify.
+- minifyFiles: minijson is 1894 times faster than jsonMinify.
 
 ```
 ❯ .\dist\minijson-benchmark.exe --benchmark-minifyString --benchmark-minifyFiles
 Benchmark minifyString
 14 ms
 Benchmark minifyFiles
-49 ms
+31 ms
 
 ❯ node .\benchmark\js-benchmark.mjs
 Benchmark minifyString
diff --git a/src/native/lib.d b/src/native/lib.d
index acab581..17ba70f 100644
--- a/src/native/lib.d
+++ b/src/native/lib.d
@@ -47,15 +47,13 @@ string minifyString(in string jsonString, in bool hasComment = false) @trusted
     {
       auto leftContextSubstr = match.pre()[prevFrom .. $];
       const noLeftContext = leftContextSubstr.length == 0;
-      if (!in_string && !noLeftContext)
-      {
-        leftContextSubstr = remove_spaces(leftContextSubstr);
-      }
-      if (!noLeftContext)
-      {
+      if (!noLeftContext) {
+        if (!in_string)
+        {
+          leftContextSubstr = remove_spaces(leftContextSubstr);
+        }
         result ~= leftContextSubstr;
       }
-
       if (matchFrontHit == "\"")
       {
         if (!in_string || noLeftContext || hasNoSlashOrEvenNumberOfSlashes(leftContextSubstr))
@@ -175,10 +173,8 @@ void minifyFiles(in string[] files, in bool hasComment = false)
   import std.parallelism : parallel;
   import std.file : readText, write;
 
-  foreach (ref file; files.parallel())
+  foreach (file; files.parallel())
   {
-    const string jsonString = readText(file);
-    const minifiedJsonString = minifyString(jsonString, hasComment);
-    write(file, minifiedJsonString);
+    write(file, minifyString(readText(file), hasComment));
   }
 }