Manual updates 20241003 improvements data acquisition build timings measurements (20240211)

[moljac]

Does this change any of the generated binding API's?

No.

Describe your contribution

Cake script modifications to add data acquisition for future investigations of build timings (measurements).

[jpobst]

Rather than duplicate all this code, it would probably be better to put it in a common script in build/cake and then use #load in each script to import it.

We should also consider whether bringing in a whole new dependency with ZString to build a few strings is worth it.

[moljac]

We should also consider whether bringing in a whole new dependency with ZString to build a few strings is worth it.

I am investigating some performance improvements XML and JSON serialization/deserialization and string manipulation (ZString in this case to see its API before doing bigger refactorings)

[moljac]

We should also consider whether bringing in a whole new dependency with ZString to build a few strings is worth it.

When I grab some time for my side projects I also investigte stuff we could use for our improvements. For this one I found out it is new dependency which needs to be introduced and might be obsolete when System.StringBuilder gets similar implementation, but the numbers are impressive, while the core (mostly used) API is the same as System.StringBuilder - only type needs to be changed.

This change is not proof [yet] and that's the reason I asked about benchmarks and unit-tests in /dotnet/java-interop.