Fastest Way to Parse Large Strings (multi threaded)

Question

I am about to start a project which will be taking blocks of text, parsing a lot of data into them into some sort of object which can then be serialized, stored, and statistics

Answer 1

If you want to do fast string parsing in C#, you might want to consider having a look at the new NLib project. It contains string extensions to facilitate searching strings in various ways rapidly. Such as, IndexOfAny(string[]) and IndexOfNotAny. They contain overloads with a StringComparison argument too.