interesting news for java developers

Here’s a nice blog entry by Daniel Pietraru showing how StringBuilder is around 34% faster than StringBuffer for single threaded applications. Even includes bytecode analysis for plain String concatenation, something I’ve always been curious about.

1.         StringBuilder concat = new StringBuilder(BUFFSIZE);  

2.         for (int i = 0; i < ITERATIONS; i++) {  

3.             concat.append(i % 10);  

4.         }