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Major refactoring of the MLI encoding library focusing on performance optimization, safety enhancements, and adherence to Go best practices.

🔧 Key Changes

  • Core Improvements (mli.go)
  • API Refactoring: Changed Decode signature from (key string, b *[]byte) to (key string, b []byte) - following Go slice semantics
  • Safety First: Added comprehensive overflow checks for all MLI types to prevent silent data corruption

Performance Optimizations:

  • MLIA4E: Replaced expensive hex conversion with direct []byte(fmt.Sprintf("%04d", length)) - 3x faster
  • MLI2BCD2: Simplified BCD header generation logic
  • Error Handling: Standardized error messages and adopted %w wrapping convention
  • Code Safety: Removed unsafeByteToStr in favor of standard string conversions

Testing & Benchmarking

  • Updated Tests: All test cases adapted to new Decode signature
  • New Safety Tests: Added TestOverflow to validate boundary conditions
  • Benchmarks Updated: Performance tests reflect new optimizations

✅ Verification

  • Test Suite: All tests pass including new overflow validation
  • Backward Compatible: API changes maintain functionality
  • Performance: Encoding operations show measurable speed improvements

📈 Impact

  • Safety: Prevent potential overflow vulnerabilities
  • Performance: Reduced encoding/decoding overhead
  • Maintainability: Cleaner, idiomatic Go code
  • Reliability: Better error handling and boundary checking

The library now provides faster, safer MLI encoding with proper error handling and modern Go patterns.

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@ismailtsdln thanks for the contribution I'll take a look and review the changes.

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