The advantages of using the built-in implementation instead of pelite are:
- It's much faster on average: for Starfield.exe (~ 100 MB) it is 2.8x
faster and 4% slower reading file and product versions respectively,
and for sfse_1_15_222.dll it is 3.35x faster and < 1% slower
respectively.
- It reduces the transitive dependency count by 8
- It uses ~ 700 lines of first-party code that only depends on the
standard library, instead of 240715 lines of unaudited third-party code
- pelite hasn't had a release in 3 years, and my PR for replacing winapi
hasn't had any response in the month and a half it's been open, so the
built-in implementation is probably less of a maintenance risk.
Oliver Hamlet