An elegant way to build the string in c?

Given that we're not concatenating to one big string (we're producing many small strings) concatenation carries no performace penalties in this case. And in . NET strings are length prefixed anyway so the whole concatenation performance issue is less relevant than in C.

String.Join() is very fast as well, faster than StringBuilder.

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