[RESOLVED] Converting ASCII Byte Array to Single or Double ... Fast

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Btw, you can unzip on a separate thread/process so that decompression and ingress happen in parallel. I've just cobbled a generic async approach to unzipping here: ZipAsync.zip

In the test project you can see how it uses built-in GetObject to retrieve an object reference from the remote ZipAsync process and then it calls OpenArchive and successive ReadChunk on this remote object to retrieve chunks of data as it's being decompressed in the ZipAsync process in parallel to any processing which happen in the driver test process.

The name of the object (a GUID) is generated by driver process and is passed on the command line so that ZipAsync registers "ZipAsync.<<guid>>" name in ROT and driver process retrieves the same name from ROT using GetObject. For debug purposes both processes use fixed GUID as currently preset in ZipAsync project's "Comnmand Line" setting, thus it's possible to successfully communicate between the two instances of VB IDE with ZipAsync and driver project while debugging both of the projects.

Probably some throttling will be necessary on the unzipping part if ingress is too slow to catch up with decompression so that OOM is prevented in ZipAsync process (currently not implemented).

Also keep in mind that as a final polish it's possible both driver project and ZipAsync project to be combined in a single project/binary which differentiate mode of execution by command line parameters e.g "--channel <<GUID>>" command line option would start the application in a hidden ZipAsync mode, much the same way chrome.exe starts a gazillion processes and does multi-threading on several separate channels in parallel.

cheers,
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