Faster alternative to decimal.Parse

Thanks for all your comments which gave me a little more insight. Finally I did it as follows. If input is too long then it separates input string and parses first part using long and the rest with int which is still faster than decimal.Parse.

This is my final production code:

public static int[] powof10 = new int[10]
{
    1,
    10,
    100,
    1000,
    10000,
    100000,
    1000000,
    10000000,
    100000000,
    1000000000
};
public static decimal ParseDecimal(string input)
{
    int len = input.Length;
    if (len != 0)
    {
        bool negative = false;
        long n = 0;
        int start = 0;
        if (input[0] == '-')
        {
            negative = true;
            start = 1;
        }
        if (len <= 19)
        {
            int decpos = len;
            for (int k = start; k < len; k++)
            {
                char c = input[k];
                if (c == '.')
                {
                    decpos = k +1;
                }else{
                    n = (n *10) +(int)(c -'0');
                }
            }
            return new decimal((int)n, (int)(n >> 32), 0, negative, (byte)(len -decpos));
        }else{
            if (len > 28)
            {
                len = 28;
            }
            int decpos = len;
            for (int k = start; k < 19; k++)
            {
                char c = input[k];
                if (c == '.')
                {
                    decpos = k +1;
                }else{
                    n = (n *10) +(int)(c -'0');
                }
            }
            int n2 = 0;
            bool secondhalfdec = false; 
            for (int k = 19; k < len; k++)
            {
                char c = input[k];
                if (c == '.')
                {
                    decpos = k +1;
                    secondhalfdec = true;
                }else{
                    n2 = (n2 *10) +(int)(c -'0');
                }
            }
            byte decimalPosition = (byte)(len -decpos);
            return new decimal((int)n, (int)(n >> 32), 0, negative, decimalPosition) *powof10[len -(!secondhalfdec ? 19 : 20)] +new decimal(n2, 0, 0, negative, decimalPosition);
        }
    }
    return 0;
}

benchmark code:

const string input = "[inputs are below]";
var style = System.Globalization.NumberStyles.AllowDecimalPoint | System.Globalization.NumberStyles.AllowLeadingSign;
var culture = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;
System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch s = new System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch();
s.Reset();
s.Start();
for (int i=0; i<10000000; i++)
{
    decimal.Parse(input, style, culture);
}
s.Stop();
Console.WriteLine(s.Elapsed.ToString());

s.Reset();
s.Start();
for (int i=0; i<10000000; i++)
{
    ParseDecimal(input);
}
s.Stop();
Console.WriteLine(s.Elapsed.ToString());

results on my i7 920:

input: 123.456789

00:00:02.7292447
00:00:00.6043730

input: 999999999999999123.456789

00:00:05.3094786
00:00:01.9702198

input: 1.0

00:00:01.4212123
00:00:00.2378833

input: 0

00:00:01.1083770
00:00:00.1899732

input: -3.3333333333333333333333333333333

00:00:06.2043707
00:00:02.0373628

If input consists only of 0-9, . and optionally - at the begining then this custom function is significantly faster for parsing string to decimal.