C# String Maniupulation with pointers performance?
<p>I'm trying to do some testing with strings and I looked at this article: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5473531/is-stringbuilder-really-faster-than-aggreggate">Is StringBuilder really faster than Aggreggate?</a></p>

<p>and I'm curious if pointers would gain any performance over the string builder object at all?  The reason i'm asking is we have a windows service responsible for building reports and exporting the data into excel (using xml, not excel objects of any kind), so the strings are very large for some of the reports.  Using stringBuilder the service takes about 5 seconds to obtain the data from the DB, and 8 hrs to build the strings for the report.  This is a co-workers code so I dont' have any examples right now to post but I'll see if I can't obtain some.  Overall just curious if string building with pointers is faster than stringbuilder.</p>

<p>Thanks,</p>

<p>Chris</p>
