String output: format or concat in C#?

Question

Let\'s say that you want to output or concat strings. Which of the following styles do you prefer?

• var p = new { FirstName = \"Bill\", LastName = \"Ga

Answer 1

Here are my results over 100,000 iterations:

Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", p.FirstName, p.LastName); took (avg): 0ms - 689 ticks
Console.WriteLine(p.FirstName + " " + p.LastName); took (avg): 0ms - 683 ticks

And here is the bench code:

Stopwatch s = new Stopwatch();

var p = new { FirstName = "Bill", LastName = "Gates" };

//First print to remove the initial cost
Console.WriteLine(p.FirstName + " " + p.LastName);
Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", p.FirstName, p.LastName);

int n = 100000;
long fElapsedMilliseconds = 0, fElapsedTicks = 0, cElapsedMilliseconds = 0, cElapsedTicks = 0;

for (var i = 0; i < n; i++)
{
    s.Start();
    Console.WriteLine(p.FirstName + " " + p.LastName);
    s.Stop();
    cElapsedMilliseconds += s.ElapsedMilliseconds;
    cElapsedTicks += s.ElapsedTicks;
    s.Reset();
    s.Start();
    Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", p.FirstName, p.LastName);
    s.Stop();
    fElapsedMilliseconds += s.ElapsedMilliseconds;
    fElapsedTicks += s.ElapsedTicks;
    s.Reset();
}

Console.Clear();

Console.WriteLine("Console.WriteLine(\"{0} {1}\", p.FirstName, p.LastName); took (avg): " + (fElapsedMilliseconds / n) + "ms - " + (fElapsedTicks / n) + " ticks");
Console.WriteLine("Console.WriteLine(p.FirstName + \" \" + p.LastName); took (avg): " + (cElapsedMilliseconds / n) + "ms - " + (cElapsedTicks / n) + " ticks");

So, I don't know whose reply to mark as an answer :)