C#: What takes up more memory? A string or bytes?
Let’s say I have a line that reads “My Text”, in which form would that line use up more memory, as a byte or a string?
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C#: What takes up more memory? A string or bytes?
Let’s say I have a line that reads “My Text”, in which form would that line use up more memory, as a byte or a string?
The byte array. This will store your text as ASCII (1 byte per character) characters, whereas a .NET string uses Unicode which are larger. However remember that .NET strings are probably more useful and in a large application the difference probably won’t make a huge difference.
(note also that if you just use ASCII characters in your .NET string then the characters will still only be 1 byte each)