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Re: kawa-java string compatibility proposal
Vadim Nasardinov wrote:
StringBuffer is significantly faster than char[] in many cases.
Converting a char[] instance to a String via new String(char[]) always
involves copying.
Converting a StringBuffer to String via StringBuffer#toString()
involves no copying, provided the StringBuffer instance is never
mutated after you call toString() on it.
True. On the other hand, StringBuffer has extra non-trivial overhead,
including synchronization. Using StringBuilder reduces the overhead,
but doesn't remove it, and is Java5-specific. And char[] does have
semantics closer to Scheme strings.
Off-topic: Fixed-lengh mutable strings are really a useless data-type,
except as a building-block to implement more useful data structures.
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