Some changes

[hugobritobh]

All unit tests passed, BUT some were not included because updated change.

• Static method

• Primitive types, vectors and lists passing through REF

• Decimal treatment (be careful with internationalization. For example: PT_BR and US_EN)

• Benchmarks using BenchmarkDotNet

There is a way to improve the list and vectors part. If I have time I will make this improvement.

when doing the merge with nullable types there were some problems and I returned the version.

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[trampster]

Thanks for your contribution, I can see a lot of work has gone into this, and there is a lot of value in here.

Unfortunately I can't accept this contribute as is:

• There are to many things all in one merge request, consider submitting a merge request for each individual thing.
• It breaks compatibility on the public API, (change to static, and the change to ref) we have now done the first full release so can't do that.
• I deliberately used an instance instead of static because this allows for Mocking making it more friendly to people who want to do Unit testing, (although I still need to add an interface)
• I don't think we should be making everything pass by ref, there is no performance advantage for passing an int by ref for example and it just makes the API harder to use. However for serializing structs and the like this is a good thing.
• Arrays are reference types by default in .net, so passing the reference to an array by reference is only of value if the code is going to assign a new array instance to it.

Consider raising separate merge request for the following:

• Decimal support
• ref struct support

I don't want this to put you off, I can see that a lot of effort has gone into this, and there is stuff in this merge request that I would definitely accept.

[hugobritobh]

it's all right