StackOverflow String Replacement Comparison

Comparing the performance of various ways to replace characters in a string https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7411438/remove-characters-from-c-sharp-string

by drzaus

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<span style="color: green; font-weight:bold; font-size: 110%;">
      <th class="headingpresenter">Control (10000x)</th>
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    <td class="headingpresenter">1047 ticks elapsed (0.1047 ms) [in 10K reps, 1.047E-05 ms per]</td>
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      <th class="headingpresenter">My name @is ,Wan.;'; Wan</th>
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          <td class="typeheader" colspan="3">(8 items)</td>
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          <td>stackoverflow SplitJoin</td>
          <td>1.00x</td>
          <td>29023 ticks elapsed (2.9023 ms) [in 10K reps, 0.00029023 ms per]</td>
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          <td>stackoverflow Replace</td>
          <td>2.77x</td>
          <td>80295 ticks elapsed (8.0295 ms) [in 10K reps, 0.00080295 ms per]</td>
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          <td>stackoverflow RegexCompiled</td>
          <td>5.27x</td>
          <td>152869 ticks elapsed (15.2869 ms) [in 10K reps, 0.00152869 ms per]</td>
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          <td>stackoverflow LinqSplit</td>
          <td>5.43x</td>
          <td>157580 ticks elapsed (15.758 ms) [in 10K reps, 0.0015758 ms per]</td>
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          <td>stackoverflow Regex, Uncompiled</td>
          <td>5.85x</td>
          <td>169667 ticks elapsed (16.9667 ms) [in 10K reps, 0.00169667 ms per]</td>
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          <td>stackoverflow Regex</td>
          <td>6.81x</td>
          <td>197551 ticks elapsed (19.7551 ms) [in 10K reps, 0.00197551 ms per]</td>
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          <td>stackoverflow RegexCompiled Insensitive</td>
          <td>7.33x</td>
          <td>212789 ticks elapsed (21.2789 ms) [in 10K reps, 0.00212789 ms per]</td>
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