Go Standard Library Cookbook

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Just for comparison, there is a benchmark code, which compares the performance of the built-in + operator, bytes.Buffer, and built-in copy:

1. Create a bench folder and file bench_test.go in it with the following content:

        package main        import (          "bytes"          "testing"        )        const testString = "test"        func BenchmarkConcat(b *testing.B) {          var str string          b.ResetTimer()          for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {            str += testString          }          b.StopTimer()        }        func BenchmarkBuffer(b *testing.B) {          var buffer bytes.Buffer          b.ResetTimer()          for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {            buffer.WriteString(testString)          }          b.StopTimer()        }        func BenchmarkCopy(b *testing.B) {          bs := make([]byte, b.N)          bl := 0           b.ResetTimer()          for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {            bl += copy(bs[bl:], testString)          }          b.StopTimer() } ...