Parse from file?

[sancarn]

@cristianbuse Just a thought, would parsing from file be faster if you read character by character, rather than reading the whole file into memory? Perhaps a feature you might want to consider down the line.

[cristianbuse]

Thanks @sancarn

It should be faster. Even if it proves that it's not, it is definitely worth implementing because VBA can't handle large files anyway. Something like a stream read would be awesome.

I did think of this but I knew this would be complex and time-consuming. I really wanted to roll-out the serializer before this April because I knew I won't have any time until Autumn to work on this.

Will definitely implement at some point. Cheers

[cristianbuse]

@sancarn Unless I give up on VBA entirely by then 😆

[sancarn]

Unless I give up on VBA entirely by then

LOL! I feel you! 🤣

[cristianbuse]

Just a reminder to myself, before implementing such feature, UTF8, UTF16BE and UTF32LE/BE must be supported natively and should be done as the parsing progresses. Currently encoding / decoding is done via API calls and this would not be feasible for file streams because of the API overhead in VBA7.