Improve float serialization, add .NET 5 Half support. #77
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Apologies for doing this all in one PR. Doing it separately would've produced three conflicting PRs which is even less ideal.
Optimized float serialization to be faster and write less bytes in almost all cases. Add .NET 5
Half
support. See commits for details.Benchmarks for writing/reading code mentioned
Span code is used on .NET Core/.NET 5 for 32/64 bit since it's faster.
Benchmark code:
Proof that compressed int writing for floats does not help