gotcha.. this makes sense. On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:18 PM Esteban A. Maringolo <emaring...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-03-10 15:09 GMT-03:00 sergio_101 <sergio....@gmail.com>: > > > > it seems that in more cases than not, i find that developers use a stream > > when concatenating some text strings. > > > > I am wondering if this is a smalltalk thing, or is there a real speed > > benefit when using streams in this way. > > It is not a matter of speed only, but mostly memory. > > For large text concatenations Streams are more memory efficient > because you don't create intermediate strings. > > E.g. > 'string1', 'string2', 'string3' ... , "stringN" will require the > creation of N intermediate String instances. > > aStream > nextPutAll: 'string1'; > nextPutAll: 'string2'; > nextPutAll: 'string3'; > nextPutAll: 'stringN' > > Will only add contents to the Stream collection. > > > Esteban A. Maringolo > >
