Mabrouk Mahdhi
Aug 18, 2023

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The article does a commendable job explaining the advantages of the StringBuilder class in C# for string manipulations. However, there are a few points of critique:

Lack of Benchmarking: While the article claims performance benefits using StringBuilder, it would be far more convincing to include benchmarks comparing the execution time of StringBuilder against regular string concatenations and modifications. Simply stating a method is faster doesn't provide a clear picture without empirical evidence.

Example Misrepresentation: The second example, which involves replacing "a" with "A" 10,000 times, doesn't realistically show the inefficiencies of the string.Replace() method. In reality, the string will have all "a" characters replaced after the first iteration, making the subsequent 9,999 iterations redundant. This doesn't genuinely illustrate the inefficiency but rather portrays a poorly constructed example.

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Mabrouk Mahdhi
Mabrouk Mahdhi

Written by Mabrouk Mahdhi

Founder @ CodeCampsis, Microsoft MVP

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