String is immutable — every operation creates a new object. Repeated concatenation produces many temporary objects and unnecessary GC pressure. StringBuilder and StringBuffer solve this: they are mutable, operate on an internal character array, and produce no intermediate strings.

The Problem with Repeated Concatenation
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