feat(csharp/src/Apache.Arrow.Adbc): improved performance of ValueAt helper and AdbcDataReader #2534
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I noticed that the ValueAt helper had compiled into some very inefficient IL, so I decided to improve its performance by replacing with a simpler switch statement. I then realized that in AdbcDataReader, we don't need to do the type check on every row because it's the same underlying Arrow type for the entire column -- so it's faster to get a delegate once and keep using the same delegate for the entire data set. Benchmarking came up with these results when testing through AdbcDataReader.GetValues: