As far as I remember, Federico Lois in his Patterns for High Performance C#, described that in RavenDB they had to roll out they own string type for performance

As far as I remember, Federico Lois in his Patterns for High Performance C#, described that in RavenDB they had to roll out they own string type for performance reasons. So I suppose there is still room for improvement in .NET when it comes to string. edit: link to the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GTpwgsmHgU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GTpwgsmHgU