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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FastCat 'performance'
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:26:07 +0100
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Am 27.02.2013 21:38, schrieb Daniel Pitts:
> Now, to be fair to Roedy, you aren't exactly using it "as proscribed",
> and you aren't testing the time spent in the constructors.
> 
> I've made the Strings you append longer, and I've fixed the estimates
> for the FastCat and the StringBu*ers constructors to be spot-on:

Well, in the example Roedy posted here, the strings weren't very long
either.

> So, depending on its use, FastCat *can* be about twice as fast as
> StringBuffer/StringBuilder.

Which is to be expected as a factor of two is the price to pay or
exponential growth.


Regards,
  Sven