[erlang-questions] Which is best? string:concat or ++?

[Fredrik Andersson]

I would recommend also looking at
http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/lists.html#concat-1

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis@REDACTED> wrote:
> Quick scan of the source shows that string:concat/2 is exactly the ++
> operator. So using ++ will save you a function invocation assuming the
> Erlang compiler doesn't optimize that away.
>
> https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/maint/lib/stdlib/src/string.erl#L61
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Paul Barry <paul.james.barry@REDACTED> wrote:
>> Hi folks.
>>
>> This might be a case of a dumb question, but here goes anyway.  :-)
>>
>> I have two strings, A and B.  Is it better to use:
>>
>>   string:concat(A, B)
>>
>> or
>>
>>    A ++ B
>>
>> when combining them to create a new string?  I'm writing some code
>> that generates a chunk of HTML.  I know that using ++ on big lists is
>> regarded as a "no-no", but is it acceptable here?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>> --
>> Paul Barry, w: http://paulbarry.itcarlow.ie - e: paul.barry@REDACTED
>> Lecturer, Computer Networking: Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland.
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