String StringBuffer和StringBuilder的区别是什么？

String StringBuffer和StringBuilder的区别是什么？

String为什么是不可变的

String类中使用final关键字修饰字符数组来保存字符串，private final char value[],所以String类型是不可变的。

可变性

StringBulider和StringBuffer都是继承AbstractStringBuilder类，在AbstractStringBuilder中也是使用字符组保存字符串char[] value,但是没有用final关键字进行修饰，所以这两种对象都是可变的。
StringBuilder和StringBuffer的构造方法都是调用父类的构造方法来实现的。

线程安全性

String中的对象是不可变的，也就是常量，线程安全。AbstractStringBuilder是StringBuilder与StringBuffer的公共类，定义了一些字符串的基本操作，如expandCapacity，append，insert，indexOf等公共方法。StringBuffer对方法加了同步锁或者对调用方法加了同步锁，所以线程是安全。StringBuilder并没有添加同步锁，所以线程是非安全的。

性能

每次对String类型进行改变的时候，都会生成一个新的String对象，然后将指针指向新的String对象。StringBuffer每次都会对StringBuffer对象本身进行操作，而不是生成新的对象并改变对象的引用。相同的情况下使用StringBuilder相比使用StringBuffer仅能获得10%~15%的性能提升，但是却要冒着多线程不去那群的风险。

源码分析

StringBuffer源码（部分）：

public final class StringBuffer
    extends AbstractStringBuilder
    implements java.io.Serializable, CharSequence
{
   private transient char[] toStringCache;

  
    static final long serialVersionUID = 3388685877147921107L;

    public StringBuffer() {
        super(16);
    }

    public StringBuffer(int capacity) {
        super(capacity);
    }

    public StringBuffer(String str) {
        super(str.length() + 16);
        append(str);
    }

    public StringBuffer(CharSequence seq) {
        this(seq.length() + 16);
        append(seq);
    }
     @Override
    public synchronized int length() {
        return count;
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized int capacity() {
        return value.length;
    }


    @Override
    public synchronized void ensureCapacity(int minimumCapacity) {
        super.ensureCapacity(minimumCapacity);
    }

    /**
     * @since      1.5
     */
    @Override
    public synchronized void trimToSize() {
        super.trimToSize();
    }

    /**
     * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException {@inheritDoc}
     * @see        #length()
     */
    @Override
    public synchronized void setLength(int newLength) {
        toStringCache = null;
        super.setLength(newLength);
    }

    /**
     * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException {@inheritDoc}
     * @see        #length()
     */
    @Override
    public synchronized char charAt(int index) {
        if ((index < 0) || (index >= count))
            throw new StringIndexOutOfBoundsException(index);
        return value[index];
    }

    /**
     * @since      1.5
     */
    @Override
    public synchronized int codePointAt(int index) {
        return super.codePointAt(index);
    }

    /**
     * @since     1.5
     */
    @Override
    public synchronized int codePointBefore(int index) {
        return super.codePointBefore(index);
    }

    /**
     * @since     1.5
     */
    @Override
    public synchronized int codePointCount(int beginIndex, int endIndex) {
        return super.codePointCount(beginIndex, endIndex);
    }

    /**
     * @since     1.5
     */
    @Override
    public synchronized int offsetByCodePoints(int index, int codePointOffset) {
        return super.offsetByCodePoints(index, codePointOffset);
    }

    /**
     * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    public synchronized void getChars(int srcBegin, int srcEnd, char[] dst,
                                      int dstBegin)
    {
        super.getChars(srcBegin, srcEnd, dst, dstBegin);
    }

    /**
     * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException {@inheritDoc}
     * @see        #length()
     */
    @Override
    public synchronized void setCharAt(int index, char ch) {
        if ((index < 0) || (index >= count))
            throw new StringIndexOutOfBoundsException(index);
        toStringCache = null;
        value[index] = ch;
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized StringBuffer append(Object obj) {
        toStringCache = null;
        super.append(String.valueOf(obj));
        return this;
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized StringBuffer append(String str) {
        toStringCache = null;
        super.append(str);
        return this;
    }

这里只是部分代码，从StringBuffer源码中可以看出，使用synchronized同步锁对方法进行修饰，因此StringBuffer是线程安全，我们可以从源码看出构造函数的功能，使用序列化保证缓冲区域的序列，区域大小都有所规定，可以采用默认，也可以自定义。

StringBuilder源码（部分）：

public final class StringBuilder
    extends AbstractStringBuilder
    implements java.io.Serializable, CharSequence
{

    /** use serialVersionUID for interoperability */
    static final long serialVersionUID = 4383685877147921099L;

    /**
     * Constructs a string builder with no characters in it and an
     * initial capacity of 16 characters.
     */
    public StringBuilder() {
        super(16);
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a string builder with no characters in it and an
     * initial capacity specified by the {@code capacity} argument.
     *
     * @param      capacity  the initial capacity.
     * @throws     NegativeArraySizeException  if the {@code capacity}
     *               argument is less than {@code 0}.
     */
    public StringBuilder(int capacity) {
        super(capacity);
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a string builder initialized to the contents of the
     * specified string. The initial capacity of the string builder is
     * {@code 16} plus the length of the string argument.
     *
     * @param   str   the initial contents of the buffer.
     */
    public StringBuilder(String str) {
        super(str.length() + 16);
        append(str);
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a string builder that contains the same characters
     * as the specified {@code CharSequence}. The initial capacity of
     * the string builder is {@code 16} plus the length of the
     * {@code CharSequence} argument.
     *
     * @param      seq   the sequence to copy.
     */
    public StringBuilder(CharSequence seq) {
        this(seq.length() + 16);
        append(seq);
    }

    @Override
    public StringBuilder append(Object obj) {
        return append(String.valueOf(obj));
    }

    @Override
    public StringBuilder append(String str) {
        super.append(str);
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * Appends the specified {@code StringBuffer} to this sequence.
     * <p>
     * The characters of the {@code StringBuffer} argument are appended,
     * in order, to this sequence, increasing the
     * length of this sequence by the length of the argument.
     * If {@code sb} is {@code null}, then the four characters
     * {@code "null"} are appended to this sequence.
     * <p>
     * Let <i>n</i> be the length of this character sequence just prior to
     * execution of the {@code append} method. Then the character at index
     * <i>k</i> in the new character sequence is equal to the character at
     * index <i>k</i> in the old character sequence, if <i>k</i> is less than
     * <i>n</i>; otherwise, it is equal to the character at index <i>k-n</i>
     * in the argument {@code sb}.
     *
     * @param   sb   the {@code StringBuffer} to append.
     * @return  a reference to this object.
     */
    public StringBuilder append(StringBuffer sb) {
        super.append(sb);
        return this;
    }

    @Override
    public StringBuilder append(CharSequence s) {
        super.append(s);
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * @throws     IndexOutOfBoundsException {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    public StringBuilder append(CharSequence s, int start, int end) {
        super.append(s, start, end);
        return this;
    }

    @Override
    public StringBuilder append(char[] str) {
        super.append(str);
        return this;
    }

从代码中我们可以看出StringBuilder和StringBuffer几乎差不多一样，只不过没有synchronized关键字修饰，因此决定他不是线程安全的。

String源码：

public final class String
    implements java.io.Serializable, Comparable<String>, CharSequence {
    /** The value is used for character storage. */
    private final char value[];

    /** Cache the hash code for the string */
    private int hash; // Default to 0

    /** use serialVersionUID from JDK 1.0.2 for interoperability */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -6849794470754667710L;

    /**
     * Class String is special cased within the Serialization Stream Protocol.
     *
     * A String instance is written into an ObjectOutputStream according to
     * <a href="{@docRoot}/../platform/serialization/spec/output.html">
     * Object Serialization Specification, Section 6.2, "Stream Elements"</a>
     */
    private static final ObjectStreamField[] serialPersistentFields =
        new ObjectStreamField[0];

    /**
     * Initializes a newly created {@code String} object so that it represents
     * an empty character sequence.  Note that use of this constructor is
     * unnecessary since Strings are immutable.
     */
    public String() {
        this.value = "".value;
    }

    /**
     * Initializes a newly created {@code String} object so that it represents
     * the same sequence of characters as the argument; in other words, the
     * newly created string is a copy of the argument string. Unless an
     * explicit copy of {@code original} is needed, use of this constructor is
     * unnecessary since Strings are immutable.
     *
     * @param  original
     *         A {@code String}
     */
    public String(String original) {
        this.value = original.value;
        this.hash = original.hash;
    }

    /**
     * Allocates a new {@code String} so that it represents the sequence of
     * characters currently contained in the character array argument. The
     * contents of the character array are copied; subsequent modification of
     * the character array does not affect the newly created string.
     *
     * @param  value
     *         The initial value of the string
     */
    public String(char value[]) {
        this.value = Arrays.copyOf(value, value.length);
    }

我们可以看出，String中数组使用final关键进行修饰，因此决定了它的不可变性。

总结

1. 操作少量的数据：适用String
2. 单线程操作字符串缓冲区下操作大量的数据：适用StringBuilder
3. 多线程操作字符串缓冲区下操作大量的数据：使用StringBuffer