To me it looks more like a simple array of floats than a dictionary… knowing the index, step and start wavelenght is then enough to get a very fast access to any part you may want, and dumping/loading that to/from a file should be very fast.
Have you tried to simply convert the dictionary to JSONItem and save/load its string? Maybe that makes the dictionary redundant anyway. JSONItem should be able to retrieve data quite fast (or JSONMBS at least).
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In my experience I have found Xojo’s JSON to be slow with serialization. IMHO if you want to use a “dictionary” of sorts that’s fast, the built-in one to the Mac OS is fast for access and serialization (especially when used with the binary property list format).
I know JSONItem was quite slow, but I heard it became much faster in one of the recent versions. I did not test it because I usually use JSONMBS which has a really great performance.
As Dictionaries and JSONItems are interchangeable, it might be a convenient way to save and load the dict still.