StringBuffer和StringBuilder的区别

    StringBuffer is synchronized, and StringBuilder is not. It is the main difference between StringBuffer and StringBuilder.
Here's a simple benchmark test:

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int N = 77777777;
        long t;

        {
            StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
            t = System.currentTimeMillis();
            for (int i = N; i --> 0 ;) {
                sb.append("");
            }
            System.out.println(System.currentTimeMillis() - t);
        }

        {
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            t = System.currentTimeMillis();
            for (int i = N; i --> 0 ;) {
                sb.append("");
            }
            System.out.println(System.currentTimeMillis() - t);
        }
    }
}

A test run gives the numbers of 2241 ms for StringBuffer vs 753 ms for StringBuilder.

参考文献：http://stackoverflow.com/questions/355089/difference-between-stringbuilder-and-stringbuffer#comment1863096_355092

总结：单线程用StringBuilder，更快。多线程情况下用StringBuffer，保证线程安全。