Slow de/serialization in debug for Box<[f16]>

[installgentoo]

Ditto. Using serde derives. Enabling feature flags doesn't solve the issue. Manually recasting in custom serde(with = ) to [u8] and back does solve the issue, but is incredibly cumbersome. Is there no way to make half slices just serialize fast out of the box? It's straight up unusable for game assets right now, without recast crutches.

[VoidStarKat]

Hmm, this is likely due to serde serializing the values as individual newtype structs. While it's easy enough to implement the traits specifically for slices to serialize them as byte sequences, this would unfortunately be a breaking change to anyone else serializing slices.

It's probably best for you to do serde customization for your own project needs, however it would be useful to provide these custom alternative serializers within the crate itself for easier use, so feel free to submit a PR (see f16::serialize_as_* for examples of the alternative serializers already in place, though I'm not sure how it would look for slice ones, probably standalone functions/structs in half::slice module)

[VoidStarKat]

You also may want to consider rkyv for serialization, which works differently and is supported by craft and may have better performance