.net - Why avoid string.ToLower() when doing case-insensitive string comparisons?

Question

I have read that when in your application you do a lot of string comparison and using ToLower method, this method is quite costly. I was wondering of anyone could explain to me how is it costly. Would appreciate any info or explanation. Thanks!

Answer 1

See also writing culture-safe managed code for a very good reason why not to use ToLower().

In particular, see the section on the Turkish "I" - it's caused no end of problems in the past where I work...

Calling "I".ToLower() won't return "i" if the current culture is Turkish or Azerbaijani. Doing a direct comparison on that will cause problems.