RE: performance of Java string vs RPG varying was: Max length ...

From: Steve Richter

On 5/14/07, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Steve Richter

to add to an immutable string, just new up a new string and set your
reference to the new guy:
string xml = "<elem1/>" ;
xml = xml + "<elem2/> ;

Slight problem: since the string is immutable, it has to make a complete
copy to do that simple append. Try appending one character at a time to
create a 16MB string, and tell me how well it performs <grin>.

I dont have that timing routine for as400, but I do have one in my
batch of timers I wrote when I was learning C#.