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I have a performance sensitive scenario where I would like to write UTF-8 to a byte array.
A quick glimpse on the .NET StringBuilder class has me believe that it only builds UTF-16 natively. Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(str) means extra allocations and extra clock cycles that I am not willing to spend.
Is there a native UTF-8 writer?
The MemoryStream is like a StringBuilder for bytes; you can use it to create a sequence of bytes efficiently by repeatedly appending sequences of bytes to it. It doesn’t have methods to append strings of characters though. To avoid converting each string to a byte array first, you can wrap the stream in a StreamWriter which takes care of the conversion.