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Re:Performance Improvement with the StringBuilder for C++ by alayne on Friday September 06, 2013 @10:39AM (#6340643)
Data structures like ropes are really more for editing than concatenation.
Re:Performance Improvement with the StringBuilder for C++ by phaemon on Friday September 06, 2013 @11:29AM (#6340897)
I'd never heard of "ropes" in that context and read that as the worst simile ever ("Data structures, like ropes, are...")