StringBuilder是可取的，如果你正在做多个循环，或分叉在你的代码传递…然而，对于PURE性能，如果你可以使用SINGLE字符串声明，那么性能就会更好。

例如:

string myString = "Some stuff" + var1 + " more stuff"
                  + var2 + " other stuff" .... etc... etc...;

更有表现力吗

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append("Some Stuff");
sb.Append(var1);
sb.Append(" more stuff");
sb.Append(var2);
sb.Append("other stuff");
// etc.. etc.. etc..

在这种情况下，可以认为StringBuild更易于维护，但性能并不比单个字符串声明更好。

但是十有八九……使用字符串构建器。

另一方面:string + var也比string的性能更好。格式方法(通常)在内部使用StringBuilder(如果有疑问…检查反射器!)

除了前面的答案，当我想到这样的问题时，我总是做的第一件事是创建一个小型测试应用程序。在这个应用程序中，为这两种情况执行一些计时测试，看看哪个更快。

恕我直言，添加500+字符串条目绝对应该使用StringBuilder。

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.

我相信StringBuilder更快，如果你有超过4个字符串，你需要附加在一起。此外，它可以做一些很酷的事情，如AppendLine。

作为一般的经验法则，如果我必须设置字符串的值不止一次，或者如果字符串有任何追加，那么它需要是一个字符串构建器。在了解字符串构建器之前，我曾经看到我过去编写的应用程序具有巨大的内存足迹，而且似乎一直在不断增长。将这些程序更改为使用字符串构建器可以显著减少内存使用。现在我对琴弦制造者发誓。

The performance of a concatenation operation for a String or StringBuilder object depends on how often a memory allocation occurs. A String concatenation operation always allocates memory, whereas a StringBuilder concatenation operation only allocates memory if the StringBuilder object buffer is too small to accommodate the new data. Consequently, the String class is preferable for a concatenation operation if a fixed number of String objects are concatenated. In that case, the individual concatenation operations might even be combined into a single operation by the compiler. A StringBuilder object is preferable for a concatenation operation if an arbitrary number of strings are concatenated; for example, if a loop concatenates a random number of strings of user input.

来源:MSDN