Slow string concatenation over large input

Question

I\'ve written an n-ary tree ADT which works fine. However, I need to store its serialization in a variable a calling class. eg.

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Answer 1

You might want to look at String.intern() as a way to cut down on memory use. This will use the interned String from the string pool. If you have many duplicated strings, it might be faster. More info on interned strings here