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I have some (small amount) of data that I’ll need quick access to on inital load, but not after that.
Right now, I have serialized the data (Generic List) to an Xml file and I’m deserializing it on load as needed.
My question is should I use the XmlSerializer or the BinaryFormatter? I’m not worried about file size, but serialization speed.
BinaryFormatteris faster thanXmlSerializer. It has to deal with much less bloated format without string parsing issues.