May 8, 2024 9:17 AM

These articles delve into the intricacies of string handling in programming, emphasizing the fundamental role strings play in representing text. It explores various aspects such as checking for empty strings efficiently, verifying if an object is a string, string comparison methods, formatting strings, checking for substrings and characters, retrieving and slicing substrings, concatenating strings, optimizing concatenation with StringBuilder and ObjectPool, appending single characters, encoding and decoding strings, and string compression using Brotli, Deflate, GZip, and ZLib formats. Benchmark results are provided throughout, offering insights into performance considerations. Additionally, these articles highlight recommendations and best practices for string manipulation while referencing my open-source project, Spargine, for streamlined string handling processes.

Most recommendations provided in These articles pertain to .NET 8.

String Performance: Checking for An Empty String

String Performance: Checking for a Substring

String Performance: Checking for a Character

String Performance: Combining Strings with the StringBuilder

String Performance: Concatenating Strings

String Performance: Encoding and Decoding Strings

String Performance: Formatting

String Performance: String Comparison

Performance: The Fastest Way to Use Regular Expressions in Microsoft .NET 7

String Performance Microsoft .NET: Retrieving a Substring

String Performance: String Compression

Optimizing String Concatenation in C# with Spargine FastStringBuilder

Speed up Empty String Validation with Spargine

String Performance: Appending a Character using the StringBuilder

Speeding Up the StringBuilder Using an ObjectPool

Optimizing String Processing in Collections: The Impact of PerformAction() in Spargine and FastStringBuilder

String Performance: Optimizing String Substring Extraction – Slicing vs. AsSpan()

String Performance Tip: Verifying if an Object is a String

Summary

There is much more performance information in my book Rock Your Code: Code & App Performance for Microsoft .NET available here: https://bit.ly/CodePerf3.