I’ve seen a lot of Flash libraries attempt to increase their speed in string intensive tasks by creating a custom StringBuffer class.
In many other languages, a StringBuffer is much faster than standard string concatenation. I set out to see just which method was fastest, for both the tasks of combining a handful of strings (<50) and combining a large amount of strings (>10000).
Here is the test:
Every year for the last few years, my family has sent increasingly more complex and interesting Christmas cards. It’s become tradition to put well over 60 collective hours of production time – half of which past midnight (and not just by myself), hundreds of dollars and a frantic last minute mass mailing just to hear the words “best card yet” from our family and friends.
This year, instead of shipping out a hundred hand-made books or three-foot-long fold outs, we decided to save our fingers from the paper cuts and our wallets from the printing costs.
We had Kinkos whip up a box of these…
The inside reads: “Find them this holiday season at byronmurray.com”
Happy Holidays to you all, and thanks for a great year! Here’s hoping that 2009 is as fruitful as the last.
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