Optimize XLSX cell reading and pooled buffers

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XLSX streaming now avoids repeated parsing on common cell values and starts with a smaller row buffer. It also preserves valid long UTF-8 text that previously became empty during synchronous reads.

• Add a guarded fast path for complete cached cell values, retaining the general parser as fallback.
• Parse shared-string IDs once and reuse the result.
• Grow pooled row storage from 256 cells instead of renting 16,384 cells immediately: 6 KiB instead of 384 KiB of initial element storage per narrow reader.
• Grow the byte scan buffer within its existing limit when a token does not fit, including 32,767-character CJK cells.
• Update benchmark dependencies to ExcelDataReader 3.9.0 and MiniExcel 1.46.0, and refresh the README comparisons, including native-targeted calamine.

Validation:

• Locked restore and Release solution build passed; 819 tests passed, including 49 added cases.
• All 20 financial-model golden workbooks matched baseline decoded output: 132,281 rows and 4,778,643 cell slots.
• Controlled before/after numeric-reader benchmark: 62.905 ms to 53.350 ms, a 15.2% reduction. Warmed managed allocations were unchanged across the four comparison fixtures; the smaller pooled buffer reduces retained capacity.
• All 19 documented BenchmarkDotNet cases completed. NYC streaming averaged 3.38 s with 161 MiB peak RSS; every measured run reported 41,000,041 cells.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements

  • Improved XLSX processing for large inline strings, sparse columns, and cells located far across a worksheet.
  • Enhanced handling of shared strings, formulas, dates, booleans, errors, and other typed cell values.
  • Improved reliability when reading workbooks from fragmented or partially buffered streams.
  • Optimized common cell-reading paths for more efficient spreadsheet scanning.

• Documentation

  • Updated benchmark results and performance documentation with current measurements and implementation details.

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The XLSX reader now grows pooled buffers on demand, decodes common cached values directly, and preserves shared-string behavior. New tests cover buffer splits, sparse rows, oversized strings, cached values, and shared-string indices. Package versions and benchmark documentation were updated.

Changes

XLSX reader buffer management

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pooled buffer growth src/XLSight/Internal/Readers/Xlsx/*, tests/XLSight.Tests/Readers/Xlsx/OversizedInlineStringTests.cs, tests/XLSight.Tests/Readers/Xlsx/RowBufferGrowthTests.cs	ScanBuffer grows during synchronous refills. SheetCursor and FillRowCells grow pooled cell buffers for wide and sparse rows. Disposal clears returned buffers. Tests cover fragmented reads, sparse columns, projections, and oversized strings.

Cached-value decoding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cached-value decoding paths src/XLSight/Internal/Readers/Xlsx/XlsxSheetScanner.CellBodyReader.cs, tests/XLSight.Tests/Readers/Xlsx/CachedValueFastPathTests.cs, tests/XLSight.Tests/Readers/Xlsx/SharedStringCellDecodeTests.cs	Complete cached-value bodies use a direct path. Shared-string indices are parsed and resolved through SharedStringTable. Tests cover typed values, date systems, buffer splits, formulas, and invalid indices.

Benchmark alignment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Benchmark and package alignment Directory.Packages.props, benchmarks/XLSight.Benchmarks/packages.lock.json, README.md	MiniExcel, ExcelDataReader, and XLSight package versions were updated. README benchmark tables, tool versions, performance explanations, and ScanBuffer documentation were refreshed.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 69a22

Malformed shared-string cell values can import as incorrect text instead of being rejected as invalid. Fix the parsing validation before merge.

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In `@src/XLSight/Internal/Readers/Xlsx/XlsxSheetScanner.CellBodyReader.cs`:
- Line 214: Update the Utf8Parser.TryParse validation in CellBodyReader so the
parsed shared-string index is accepted only when parsing succeeds and
bytesConsumed equals valueBytes.Length; otherwise preserve the existing
invalid/empty-value handling and do not use the partial index.

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• Directory.Packages.props
• README.md
• benchmarks/XLSight.Benchmarks/packages.lock.json
• src/XLSight/Internal/Readers/Xlsx/ScanBuffer.cs
• src/XLSight/Internal/Readers/Xlsx/SheetCursor.cs
• src/XLSight/Internal/Readers/Xlsx/XlsxSheetScanner.CellBodyReader.cs
• src/XLSight/Internal/Readers/Xlsx/XlsxSheetScanner.cs
• tests/XLSight.Tests/Readers/Xlsx/CachedValueFastPathTests.cs
• tests/XLSight.Tests/Readers/Xlsx/OversizedInlineStringTests.cs
• tests/XLSight.Tests/Readers/Xlsx/RowBufferGrowthTests.cs
• tests/XLSight.Tests/Readers/Xlsx/SharedStringCellDecodeTests.cs

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