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Question by OttoClausen · Aug 22, 2016 at 07:53 PM · optimization string memory tostring allocation

Alternative to using .toString ?

I am using this line of code percentageCount.text = percentage.ToString("F1") + " %"; in my game to display how far the player has made it into the level. The function containing that line of code is called 20 times a second. However from looking at the profiler I can see that this function is allocating a bit of memory every time it is called which is obviously not good at all.

So my question is - how can I do something similar to this but without allocating memory?

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Graphics_Dev · Aug 22, 2016 at 07:59 PM 1

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A quick google search resulted in:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/909951/with-c-sharp-which-one-is-faster-system-convert-tostring-objthatisstring-or

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/266369/should-i-use-tostring-when-concatenating-string-and-integer-variables-in-c

https://bytes.com/topic/c-sharp/answers/257889-string-conversion-alternatives-one-method-better-than-other

Also think about if you really NEED to update this 20 times per second.

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