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                  String                    StringBuffer         StringBuilder
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Storage Area | Constant String Pool         Heap                   Heap 
Modifiable   |  No (immutable)              Yes( mutable )         Yes( mutable )
Thread Safe  |      Yes                     Yes                     No
 Performance |     Fast                 Very slow                  Fast
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可变性的区别:

String是不可变的，如果你试图改变它们的值，就会创建另一个对象，而StringBuffer和StringBuilder是可变的，所以它们可以改变它们的值。

线程安全的区别:

StringBuffer和StringBuilder的区别在于StringBuffer是线程安全的。因此，当应用程序只需要在一个线程中运行时，最好使用StringBuilder。StringBuilder比StringBuffer更有效。

情况:

如果你的字符串不会改变，请使用string类，因为string对象是不可变的。 如果您的字符串可以更改(例如:字符串构造中的大量逻辑和操作)，并且只能从单个线程访问，那么使用StringBuilder就足够了。 如果您的字符串可以更改，并且可以从多个线程访问，请使用StringBuffer，因为StringBuffer是同步的，因此具有线程安全性。

You use String when an immutable structure is appropriate; obtaining a new character sequence from a String may carry an unacceptable performance penalty, either in CPU time or memory (obtaining substrings is CPU efficient because the data is not copied, but this means a potentially much larger amount of data may remain allocated). You use StringBuilder when you need to create a mutable character sequence, usually to concatenate several character sequences together. You use StringBuffer in the same circumstances you would use StringBuilder, but when changes to the underlying string must be synchronized (because several threads are reading/modifyind the string buffer).

这里有一个例子。

另外，StringBuffer是线程安全的，而StringBuilder不是。

因此，在实时情况下，当不同的线程正在访问它时，StringBuilder可能会有一个不确定的结果。

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                  String                    StringBuffer         StringBuilder
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Storage Area | Constant String Pool         Heap                   Heap 
Modifiable   |  No (immutable)              Yes( mutable )         Yes( mutable )
Thread Safe  |      Yes                     Yes                     No
 Performance |     Fast                 Very slow                  Fast
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In java, String is immutable. Being immutable we mean that once a String is created, we can not change its value. StringBuffer is mutable. Once a StringBuffer object is created, we just append the content to the value of object instead of creating a new object. StringBuilder is similar to StringBuffer but it is not thread-safe. Methods of StingBuilder are not synchronized but in comparison to other Strings, the Stringbuilder runs fastest. You can learn difference between String, StringBuilder and StringBuffer by implementing them.