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Originally Posted by Wizkidje

The Visual Studio version of that MSDN page is defaulted to 2012 which should be .NET 4.5. I'm assuming 'GetStringAndRelease' does allocate heap memory and then releases it after the function returns.

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GetStringAndRelease allocates O(1), while the += operator allocates O(n), where O is (current) string length and n is the number of calls. The first ends up being much more efficient since allocation costs virtually nothing and the GC only has to pin one object instead of n during clean up.

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Originally Posted by AngraMainyu

GetStringAndRelease allocates O(1), while the += operator allocates O(n), where O is (current) string length and n is the number of calls. The first ends up being much more efficient since allocation costs virtually nothing and the GC only has to pin one object instead of n during clean up.

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Ah, figured, they were referring to calling String.Format from within a loop. Thanks for clearing that up.