string performance

Servé Lau · Dec 7, 2003

I have an application which is very string intensive, therefore I'm
wondering about the string performance.

suppose I use this construct

string getString()
{
....processing
return s;
}

Will this create a new string like it would in java or is it reference
counted?
Am I better off with storing a member veriable and do the processing there?

I'm sorry that I have to ask here. No time to test this myself and maybe
somebody else will learn from it.

Rick Strahl [MVP] · Dec 7, 2003

You can do that just fine. If you use strings like this make sure you use a
StringBuilder to build your string. The string returned is valid as long as
a variable has a reference to it. After that the garbage collector will
clear it out.

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string performance

Servé Lau

Rick Strahl [MVP]