Are there efficient ways of reading and writing binary numeric data ?

I've cobbled together a PMD loader in DAZ script and while it works, its very slow.  I expect this is because I'm using my own routines, written in DAZ script, to convert the byte data to 32 bit ints and floats.

I'm not finding any way of directly reading or writing binary ints and floats nor any functions/methods on classes to convert from bytes to ints and floats.  I assume this is because they don't exist in DAZ script at this time.  DzFile looks like a good candidate to add readInt, readFloat and other operations like this.

Prove me wrong, please, .