Performance issue: “java.text.MessageFormat.format” vs “StringBuilder”

Question

I want to know in compare of MessageFormat or StringBuilder class. Let say an example i have a String. For performance wise which one is fast among: java.text.MessageFormat.format or StringBuilder("Test ").append("Hello ") ?

String txt = java.text.MessageFormat.format("Test {0}"," Hello") 
String txt1=   new StringBuilder("Test ").append("Hello ")

I just want to know which one is use in case of best practice or performance wise

Answer 1

Try it yourself:

long start = System.nanoTime();
String txt = MessageFormat.format("Test {0}"," Hello");
System.out.println("MessageFormat: " + (System.nanoTime() - start) + " ns");

start = System.nanoTime();
String txt1 = new StringBuilder("Test ").append("Hello").toString();
System.out.println("StringBuilder: " + (System.nanoTime() - start) + " ns");

Output:

MessageFormat: 1125974 ns

StringBuilder: 16705 ns

Conclusion:

StringBuilder works much faster because it just adds some chars to existing array.

Answer 2

StringBuilder只将文本附加到动态缓冲区，而MessageFormat必须在附加数据之前解析给定的格式，然后StringBuilder比MessageFormat更有效。