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I've always used

foo += bar;

for string concatenation but I'm curious how it performs against

foo = foo + bar;

at high volume.

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var a = 'hello';
for (var b = 0; b < 25000; b++) {
 a += b;
}

var a = 'hello';
for (var b = 0; b < 25000; b++) {
 a = a + b;
}

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• Revision 1: published by scunliffe on 9th December 2010
• Revision 3: published by Russell Dempsey on 1st March 2013

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