Fast copy of Color32[] array to byte[] array

Question

What would be a fast method to copy/convert an array of Color32[] values to a byte[] buffer? Color32 is

Answer 1

I ended up using this code:

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

private static byte[] Color32ArrayToByteArray(Color32[] colors)
{
    if (colors == null || colors.Length == 0)
        return null;

    int lengthOfColor32 = Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(Color32));
    int length = lengthOfColor32 * colors.Length;
    byte[] bytes = new byte[length];

    GCHandle handle = default(GCHandle);
    try
    {
        handle = GCHandle.Alloc(colors, GCHandleType.Pinned);
        IntPtr ptr = handle.AddrOfPinnedObject();
        Marshal.Copy(ptr, bytes, 0, length);
    }
    finally
    {
        if (handle != default(GCHandle))
            handle.Free();
    }

    return bytes;
}

Which is fast enough for my needs.