Faster (unsafe) BinaryReader in .NET

Question

I came across a situation where I have a pretty big file that I need to read binary data from.

Consequently, I realized that the default BinaryReader implementation in .

Answer 1

One caveat; you might want to double-check your CPU's endianness... assuming little-endian is not quite safe (think: itanium etc).

You might also want to see if BufferedStream makes any difference (I'm not sure it will).