Fastest API for rendering text in Windows Forms?

Question

We need to optimize the text rendering for a C# Windows Forms application displaying a large number of small strings in an irregular grid. At any time there can be well ove

Answer 1

Creating a C++/CLI interop class to do the drawing in native code will result in crazy-fast drawing. We've witnesses this and measured it.

If you're not up to doing that, we've found graphics.DrawString is just slightly faster than than TextRenderer.DrawText.