Is there any other method that is faster than doing like this?
private void EscapeStringSequence(ref string data)
{
data = data.Replace("\\", "\\\\"); // Backslash
data = data.Replace("\r", "\\r"); // Carriage return
data = data.Replace("\n", "\\n"); // New Line
data = data.Replace("\a", "\\a"); // Vertical tab
data = data.Replace("\b", "\\b"); // Backspace
data = data.Replace("\f", "\\f"); // Formfeed
data = data.Replace("\t", "\\t"); // Horizontal tab
data = data.Replace("\v", "\\v"); // Vertical tab
data = data.Replace("\"", "\\\""); // Double quotation mark
data = data.Replace("'", "\\'"); // Single quotation mark
}
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Q1: Is there a reason why you need to speed it up? Is it causing a huge problem?
This part is used in this project: http://mysqlbackuprestore.codeplex.com/
I’m going to loop lots of various length of strings into this function repeatly. The whole process takes around 6-15 seconds to finished for millions of rows. There are other part get involve too. I’m trying to speed up every part.
Q2: How slow is it now?
OK, I’ll capture the exact time used and post it here. I’ll come back later. (will post the result tomorrow)
Update 29-06-2012
I have run test. This is the result:
Speed Test: String.Replace() – measured in miliseconds
Test 1: 26749.7531 ms
Test 2: 27063.438 ms
Test 3: 27753.8884 ms
Average: 27189.0265 ms
Speed: 100%
Speed Test: Foreach Char and Append – measured in miliseconds
Test 1: 8468.4547 ms
Test 2: 8348.8527 ms
Test 3: 8353.6476 ms
Average: 8390.3183 ms
Speed: 224% < faster
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Update – Next Test (Another round)
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Test Replace String Speed.
Test 1: 26535.6466
Test 2: 26379.6464
Test 3: 26379.6463
Average: 26431.6464333333
Speed: 100%
——
Test Foreach Char String Append.
Test 1: 8502.015
Test 2: 8517.6149
Test 3: 8595.6151
Average: 8538.415
Speed: 309.56%
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Test Foreach Char String Append (Fix StringBuilder Length).
Test 1: 8314.8146
Test 2: 8330.4147
Test 3: 8346.0146
Average: 8330.41463333333
Speed: 317.29%
Conclusion:
Using Foreach Char Loop and Append is faster than String.Replace().
Thanks you very much guys.
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Below are the codes that I used to run the test: (edited)
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.Write("Press any key to continue...");
Console.ReadKey();
Console.Write("\r\nProcess started.");
Test();
Console.WriteLine("Done.");
Console.Read();
}
public static Random random = new Random((int)DateTime.Now.Ticks);
public static string RandomString(int size)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
char ch;
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
{
ch = Convert.ToChar(Convert.ToInt32(Math.Floor(26 * random.NextDouble() + 65)));
sb.Append(ch);
}
return sb.ToString();
}
public static void Test()
{
string text = "\\_\r\n\a\b\f\t\v\"'" + RandomString(2000) + "\\_\r\n\a\b\f\t\v\"'" + RandomString(2000);
List<TimeSpan> lstTimeUsed = new List<TimeSpan>();
int target = 100000;
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
{
DateTime startTime = DateTime.Now;
for (int j = 0; j < target; j++)
{
if (j.ToString().EndsWith("000"))
{
Console.Clear();
Console.WriteLine("Test " + i.ToString());
Console.WriteLine(j.ToString() + " of " + target.ToString());
}
string data = text;
data = data.Replace("\\", "\\\\"); // Backslash
data = data.Replace("\r", "\\r"); // Carriage return
data = data.Replace("\n", "\\n"); // New Line
data = data.Replace("\a", "\\a"); // Vertical tab
data = data.Replace("\b", "\\b"); // Backspace
data = data.Replace("\f", "\\f"); // Formfeed
data = data.Replace("\t", "\\t"); // Horizontal tab
data = data.Replace("\v", "\\v"); // Vertical tab
data = data.Replace("\"", "\\\""); // Double quotation mark
data = data.Replace("'", "\\'"); // Single quotation mark
}
DateTime endTime = DateTime.Now;
TimeSpan ts = endTime - startTime;
lstTimeUsed.Add(ts);
}
double t1 = lstTimeUsed[0].TotalMilliseconds;
double t2 = lstTimeUsed[1].TotalMilliseconds;
double t3 = lstTimeUsed[2].TotalMilliseconds;
double tOri = (t1 + t2 + t3) / 3;
System.IO.TextWriter tw = new System.IO.StreamWriter("D:\\test.txt", true);
tw.WriteLine("------");
tw.WriteLine("Test Replace String Speed. Test Time: " + DateTime.Now.ToString());
tw.WriteLine("Test 1: " + t1.ToString());
tw.WriteLine("Test 2: " + t2.ToString());
tw.WriteLine("Test 3: " + t3.ToString());
tw.WriteLine("Average: " + tOri.ToString());
tw.WriteLine("Speed: 100%");
tw.Close();
lstTimeUsed = new List<TimeSpan>();
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
{
DateTime startTime = DateTime.Now;
for (int j = 0; j < target; j++)
{
if (j.ToString().EndsWith("000"))
{
Console.Clear();
Console.WriteLine("Test " + i.ToString());
Console.WriteLine(j.ToString() + " of " + target.ToString());
}
string data = text;
var builder = new StringBuilder();
foreach (var ch in data)
{
switch (ch)
{
case '\\':
case '\r':
case '\n':
case '\a':
case '\b':
case '\f':
case '\t':
case '\v':
case '\"':
case '\'':
builder.Append('\\');
break;
default:
break;
}
builder.Append(ch);
}
}
DateTime endTime = DateTime.Now;
TimeSpan ts = endTime - startTime;
lstTimeUsed.Add(ts);
}
t1 = lstTimeUsed[0].TotalMilliseconds;
t2 = lstTimeUsed[1].TotalMilliseconds;
t3 = lstTimeUsed[2].TotalMilliseconds;
tw = new System.IO.StreamWriter("D:\\test.txt", true);
tw.WriteLine("------");
tw.WriteLine("Test Foreach Char String Append. Test Time: " + DateTime.Now.ToString());
tw.WriteLine("Test 1: " + t1.ToString());
tw.WriteLine("Test 2: " + t2.ToString());
tw.WriteLine("Test 3: " + t3.ToString());
tw.WriteLine("Average: " + ((t1 + t2 + t3) / 3).ToString());
tw.WriteLine("Speed: " + ((tOri) / ((t1 + t2 + t3) / 3) * 100).ToString("0.00") + "%");
tw.Close();
lstTimeUsed = new List<TimeSpan>();
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
{
DateTime startTime = DateTime.Now;
for (int j = 0; j < target; j++)
{
if (j.ToString().EndsWith("000"))
{
Console.Clear();
Console.WriteLine("Test " + i.ToString());
Console.WriteLine(j.ToString() + " of " + target.ToString());
}
string data = text;
var builder = new StringBuilder(data.Length + 20);
foreach (var ch in data)
{
switch (ch)
{
case '\\':
case '\r':
case '\n':
case '\a':
case '\b':
case '\f':
case '\t':
case '\v':
case '\"':
case '\'':
builder.Append('\\');
break;
default:
break;
}
builder.Append(ch);
}
}
DateTime endTime = DateTime.Now;
TimeSpan ts = endTime - startTime;
lstTimeUsed.Add(ts);
}
t1 = lstTimeUsed[0].TotalMilliseconds;
t2 = lstTimeUsed[1].TotalMilliseconds;
t3 = lstTimeUsed[2].TotalMilliseconds;
tw = new System.IO.StreamWriter("D:\\test.txt", true);
tw.WriteLine("------");
tw.WriteLine("Test Foreach Char String Append (Fix StringBuilder Length). Test Time: " + DateTime.Now.ToString());
tw.WriteLine("Test 1: " + t1.ToString());
tw.WriteLine("Test 2: " + t2.ToString());
tw.WriteLine("Test 3: " + t3.ToString());
tw.WriteLine("Average: " + ((t1 + t2 + t3) / 3).ToString());
tw.WriteLine("Speed: " + ((tOri) / ((t1 + t2 + t3) / 3) * 100).ToString("0.00") + "%");
tw.Close();
}
}
}
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