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Javascript Does Not Need a StringBuilder.
Today I learned that Javascript does not need a StringBuilder for accumulating a large number of concatinations. As a Java programmer, that came as a shock to me. This article summarizes my exploration of this fact. Effective Java A StringBuilder is grilled into Java programmers. Effective Java [1] says, “Item…

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StringBuilder is a great example of premature optimization.

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Hakanai

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Depends. If it’s the extreme case shown in that article, I’d say it’s worthwhile to use it, because the concatenation example literally didn’t finish for many of the runs.

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