Re: SRFI-13 again [was: Re: string vs list processing]

[Per Bothner]

Martin Grabmueller <address@hidden> writes:

> What I meant was using a StringBuffer for concatenating long lists of
> strings, which is normally done in a loop.  I don't think any Java
> compiler is smart enough to figure out that he could use only _one_
> StringBuffer for something like this:
> 
> s = "";
> for (i = 0; i < strings.length; i++)
>   s = s + strings[i];

Well, I don't think it would take much compiler smarts to be able to
optimize this, but I agree this should be written with explicit
StringBuffer operations.
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