You need to put a very large Dictionary, hundreds of thousands of entries, into a struct property and pass that struct around by value. What's the 'fastest' way to store and pass it?
Dictionary is a COW container, so putting it in a struct and copying only shares the heap buffer and bumps a reference count (O(1)). Just store it and pass it by value.
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