这个基准测试表明，当组合3个或更少字符串时，常规连接更快。

http://www.chinhdo.com/20070224/stringbuilder-is-not-always-faster/

StringBuilder可以在内存使用方面做出非常显著的改进，特别是在将500个字符串加在一起的情况下。

考虑下面的例子:

string buffer = "The numbers are: ";
for( int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
    buffer += i.ToString();
}
return buffer;

内存中发生了什么?创建以下字符串:

1 - "The numbers are: "
2 - "0"
3 - "The numbers are: 0"
4 - "1"
5 - "The numbers are: 01"
6 - "2"
7 - "The numbers are: 012"
8 - "3"
9 - "The numbers are: 0123"
10 - "4"
11 - "The numbers are: 01234"
12 - "5"
13 - "The numbers are: 012345"

通过将这5个数字加到字符串的末尾，我们创建了13个字符串对象!其中12个是无用的!哇!

StringBuilder fixes this problem. It is not a "mutable string" as we often hear (all strings in .NET are immutable). It works by keeping an internal buffer, an array of char. Calling Append() or AppendLine() adds the string to the empty space at the end of the char array; if the array is too small, it creates a new, larger array, and copies the buffer there. So in the example above, StringBuilder might only need a single array to contain all 5 additions to the string-- depending on the size of its buffer. You can tell StringBuilder how big its buffer should be in the constructor.

StringBuilder is probably preferable. The reason is that it allocates more space than currently needed (you set the number of characters) to leave room for future appends. Then those future appends that fit in the current buffer don't require any memory allocation or garbage collection, which can be expensive. In general, I use StringBuilder for complex string concatentation or multiple formatting, then convert to a normal String when the data is complete, and I want an immutable object again.

如果你要做很多字符串连接，使用StringBuilder。当您连接一个String时，每次都会创建一个新的String，这会占用更多的内存。

Alex

从内存的角度来看，StringBuilder的性能会更好。至于处理，执行时间的差异可以忽略不计。

使用字符串进行连接会导致运行时复杂度达到O(n^2)的量级。

如果使用StringBuilder，需要复制的内存就会少得多。使用StringBuilder(int capacity)，如果您可以估计最终字符串的大小，则可以提高性能。即使不精确，也可能只需要将StringBuilder的容量增加几倍，这也有助于提高性能。

String和StringBuilder实际上都是不可变的，StringBuilder内置了缓冲区，允许更有效地管理其大小。当StringBuilder需要调整大小时，就是在堆上重新分配它的时候。默认情况下，它的大小为16个字符，您可以在构造函数中设置此值。

eg.

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(50);