What's the most efficient way to determine whether an untrimmed string is empty in C#?

Question

I have a string that may have whitespace characters around it and I want to check to see whether it is essentially empty.

There are quite a few ways to do this:

Answer 1

Edit: New tests:

Test orders:
x. Test name
Ticks: xxxxx //Empty String
Ticks: xxxxx //two space
Ticks: xxxxx //single letter
Ticks: xxxxx //single letter with space
Ticks: xxxxx //long string
Ticks: xxxxx //long string  with space

1. if (myString.Trim().Length == 0)
ticks: 4121800
ticks: 7523992
ticks: 17655496
ticks: 29312608
ticks: 17302880
ticks: 38160224

2.  if (myString.Trim() == "")
ticks: 4862312
ticks: 8436560
ticks: 21833776
ticks: 32822200
ticks: 21655224
ticks: 42358016


3.  if (myString.Trim().Equals(""))
ticks: 5358744
ticks: 9336728
ticks: 18807512
ticks: 30340392
ticks: 18598608
ticks: 39978008


4.  if (myString.Trim() == String.Empty)
ticks: 4848368
ticks: 8306312
ticks: 21552736
ticks: 32081168
ticks: 21486048
ticks: 41667608


5.  if (myString.Trim().Equals(String.Empty))
ticks: 5372720
ticks: 9263696
ticks: 18677728
ticks: 29634320
ticks: 18551904
ticks: 40183768


6.  if (IsEmptyOrWhitespace(myString))  //See John Skeet's Post for algorithm
ticks: 6597776
ticks: 9988304
ticks: 7855664
ticks: 7826296
ticks: 7885200
ticks: 7872776

7. is (string.IsNullOrEmpty(myString.Trim())  //Cloud's suggestion
ticks: 4302232
ticks: 10200344
ticks: 18425416
ticks: 29490544
ticks: 17800136
ticks: 38161368

And the code used:

public void Main()
{

    string res = string.Empty;

    for (int j = 0; j <= 5; j++) {

        string myString = "";

        switch (j) {

            case 0:
                myString = "";
                break;
            case 1:
                myString = "  ";
                break;
            case 2:
                myString = "x";
                break;
            case 3:
                myString = "x ";
                break;
            case 4:
                myString = "this is a long string for testing triming empty things.";
                break;
            case 5:
                myString = "this is a long string for testing triming empty things. ";

                break;
        }

        bool result = false;
        Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch();

        sw.Start();
        for (int i = 0; i <= 100000; i++) {


            result = myString.Trim().Length == 0;
        }
        sw.Stop();


        res += "ticks: " + sw.ElapsedTicks + Environment.NewLine;
    }


    Console.ReadKey();  //break point here to get the results
}

Answer 2

String.IsNullOrWhitespace in .NET 4 Beta 2 also plays in this space and doesnt need to be custom written