What is the fastest (built-in) comparison for string-types in C#

Question

What is the fastest built-in comparison-method for string-types in C#? I don\'t mind about the typographical/semantical meaning: the aim is to use the comparator in sorted lists

Answer 1

This is quite an old question, but since I found it others might as well.

In researching this topic a bit further, I came upon an interesting blog post that compares all methods for string comparison. Probably not highly scientific but still a good housenumber.

Thanks to this article I started using string.CompareOrdinal in a scenario where I had to find out if one string was in a list of 170.000 other strings and doing this 1600 times in a row. string.CompareOrdinal made it almost 50% faster compared to string.Equals