Improve Deserialize Speeds Of A Large Dictionary?

it's capability to serialize objects. In a future project I will be creating dictionaries which have a Long as a key and a Collection as an item (itself containing two other long values). These dictionaries will be large, containing around 300,000 entries.

I've worked out how serialize and deserialize the dictionary using a binary formatter.

To serialize I use:

Dim myDictionary As Collections.Generic.Dictionary(Of Int64, Collection))
' I fill the dictionary with 300,000 entries here
Dim fs As New FileStream("c: empserialDict.dat", FileMode.Create)

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