Reduce allocations of TextSerializer #410
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This PR reduces the allocations of TextSerializer by converting double/long values to byte arrays via intermediary buffers instead of creating intermediary strings. It does this by taking advantage of UftFormatters from the System.Memory assembly. All unit tests continue to pass as expected.
SerializationBenchmarks showed a 50% allocation reduction for CollectAndSerialize, while it brought CollectAndSerializeOpenMetrics down 66% into alignment with CollectAndSerialize. Since the runs of both benchmarks are bimodal, runtimes are difficult to compare although in my tests, they were unchanged and/or showed no significant differences.
Existing:
Optimized:
NOTE: there are potential opportunities to use UTF8 literals in other places to minimize allocations on startup, but that seems like a separate effort.