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04-11-2008, 10:11 AM
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StringBuilder v/s StringBuffer
Hi All,
I want to know the difference between StringBuilder & StringBuffer classes. I know that StringBuffer is thread safe and StringBuilder is not, but any practical examples and code would be appreciated. Also, if we mark the methods written for StringBuilder objects as 'synchronized', would they become thread safe? please respond soon, its urgent.
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04-11-2008, 10:18 AM
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Hi Pooja,
Welcome to our community.
Actually both are quite same, except StringBuilder is not synchronized as StringBuffer. So if you use multiple threads at a time, you are in real trouble.
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04-11-2008, 10:32 AM
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So,
Eranga How We Will Decide When To Use Which?
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04-11-2008, 10:41 AM
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Hello Pooja,
if we mark the methods written for StringBuilder objects as 'synchronized', would they become thread safe?
No Only the method calling will be thread safe.
sanjeev
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04-11-2008, 10:47 AM
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StringBuilder v/s StringBuffer
Hi All,
OK , the doubt regarding synchronized methods is clear now. thank you Sanjeev.
But back to my main question, please share sample code to show the difference in behavior of these two classes, when multiple threads are involved.
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04-11-2008, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Pooja Deshpande
But back to my main question, please share sample code to show the difference in behavior of these two classes, when multiple threads are involved.
No you can't involve with multiple thread in StringBuilder.
In most of the cases I prefer StringBuffer. Because in real world application we have to deal with large number of threads. I check this in th past using JUnit test. I don't have a sample code for this now. If you can just write a simple application and do a unit test. You can see it your self.
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04-11-2008, 11:33 AM
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Thank you very much Eranga.
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04-11-2008, 11:34 AM
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Hei In Our Application, We Are Told To Migrate The StringBuffer With StringBuilder. Can you give Some of your views on it?
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04-11-2008, 11:37 AM
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Hi,
probably for increase in performance thay might have asked you to migrate.
because StringBuilder is very efficient in case of single thread.
and migration wont take much effort, because almost all the methods of these two classes are same.
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04-11-2008, 11:38 AM
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Again all those things comes to the picture in real world, because of multi threading. In single thread application, which is the most common situation we comes up with, if you can avoid the overhead of synchronization the StringBuilder makes little faster actually.
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