# Javascript Does Not Need a StringBuilder

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**Created:** [19 April 2022 13:06 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/javascript-does-not-need-a-stringbuilder/50779 "2022-04-19T13:06:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [19 April 2022 13:06 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/javascript-does-not-need-a-stringbuilder/50779/1 "2022-04-19T13:06:51Z")

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> Javascript Does Not Need a StringBuilder.  
> Today I learned that Javascript does not need a StringBuilder for accumulating a large number of concatinations. As a Java programmer, that came as a shock to me. This article summarizes my exploration of this fact. Effective Java A StringBuilder is grilled into Java programmers. Effective Java [1] says, “Item…

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> **[Javascript Does Not Need a StringBuilder](https://josephmate.github.io/2020-07-27-javascript-does-not-need-stringbuilder/)**
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> Today I learned that Javascript does not need a StringBuilder for accumulating a large number of concatinations. As a Java programmer, that came as a shock to me. This article summarizes my exploration of this fact. Effective Java A StringBuilder is...

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**Author:** ![davearonson](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/davearonson/32/591_2.png) [@davearonson](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/davearonson)\
**Post date:** [19 April 2022 14:56 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/javascript-does-not-need-a-stringbuilder/50779/3 "2022-04-19T14:56:46Z")

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StringBuilder is a great example of premature optimization.

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**Author:** ![Hakanai](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/hakanai/32/4129_2.png) [@Hakanai](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/Hakanai)\
**Post date:** [26 April 2022 23:59 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/javascript-does-not-need-a-stringbuilder/50779/4 "2022-04-26T23:59:49Z")

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Depends. If it’s the extreme case shown in that article, I’d say it’s worthwhile to use it, because the concatenation example literally didn’t finish for many of the runs.