Fastest way of reading and writing binary

Question

I\'m currently optimizing an application, one of the operations that is done very often is reading and writing binary. I need 2 types of functions:

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Answer 1

Pointers are the way to go. Pinning objects with the fixed keyword is extremely cheap, and you avoid the overhead of calling functions like WriteInt32 and BlockCopy. For a "generic solution" you can simply use void* and use your own memcpy (since you're dealing with small amounts of data). However pointers do not work with true generics.