Faster Java – Strings

If you’re building a long String in Java, don’t stick String objects together using ‘+’, for example: String str = “Hello”; str = str + world; str = str + “!”; Why not? It’s really slow when you do it a lot! What should you do instead? Use the append(String) method in StringBuffer (Java 1.4.2 [...]

Posted on January 29, 2009 at 7:20 pm by Paul Brabban · Permalink · One Comment
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