How to serialize rhino models?

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maybe this helps:

Fastest way to Serialize GeometryBase

This is not necessary a pure GH question, but maybe Grasshopper has some tricks to do that. What I need is to convert a GeometryBase Object to a byte array - for sending over networks, (strings may be also fine). I have a basic Serialization function (first results from Stackoverflow - using BinaryFormatter) Now while that works, it is quite slow - 200ms for a mesh sphere with 8k verts… Deserialization on the other hand is very fast. It seems I can’t use external libraries like protobuffer, …