A friend of mine commented on my last post asking about how much faster the static string.Equals method is than the instance string.Equals method. To satiate both of our curiosities, I have created this benchmarking application: static void Main(string[] args) { var stopwatch = new Stopwatch(); string a = "hello"; string b = "hi"; stopwatch.Start(); for (int i = 0; i < 10000000; i++) { a.Equals(b); } stopwatch.Stop(); Console.WriteLine("Instance string.Equals over 10,000,000 iterations: " + s...
