intermediateString & StringBuilder

Why can naive string concatenation in a loop hurt performance, and did Java 9 change this?

Strings are immutable, so `result = result + i` in a loop creates a brand-new String object every iteration — use StringBuilder instead. Java 9+ does optimize a single-expression concatenation like `"Hello " + name` via invokedynamic to be nearly as fast as StringBuilder, but this doesn't help multi-statement loops.

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