Fastest String Concatenation Yet In Visual Basic

<p><font size = 6><font color = blue><u>Features</u></p>
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<LI>Faster than anything else (check out screenshot!)</LI>
<LI>No API calls</LI>
<LI>Fully configurable at runtime</LI>
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<p><font size = 6><u>Method</u></p>
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<p>    The buffering scheme I've come up with is simplicity itself.  Rather than allocating
increasingly large buffers only to move the previous buffer into the new buffer I've taken a different approach.  
My buffer is a string array.  When one string fills up the class simply moves on to the next string in the array.  
While this seems like a minor change it has two very profound effects on string concatenation.  First, this approach speeds
concatenation up dramatically.  This is because buffers are never moved around which obviously takes time.  Second, much
larger strings are possible because unlike conventional buffering schemes paged buffering does not require one huge and continuous
chunk of memory.
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<p><font size = 6><u>Implementation</u></p>
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<p>    Paged buffering string concatenation is best implemented as a class module.  I've named this class 
<font color = red>cFastCat<font color = black>
and implemented it as follows:
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<LI>BufferPages - Sets/returns the number of pages contained in the buffer</LI>
<LI>BufferPageSize - Sets/returns the size of each buffer page</LI>
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<p><font color = blue>Read Only Properties</p><font color = black>
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<LI>Value - Returns the current string in the buffer.  This is the default property of <font color = red>cFastCat<font color = black></LI>
<LI>TotalBufferSize - Returns the amount of space in bytes the buffer is currently using.  Because the buffer does not
by default free its resources this space can be different from the size of the string in the buffer</LI>
<LI>StringLength - Returns the length in characters of the string in the buffer</LI>
<LI>StringLengthB - Returns the length in bytes of the string in the buffer</LI>
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<p><font color = blue>Methods</p><font color = black>
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<LI>Append - Concatenates the passed string onto the end of the buffer</LI>
<LI>Flush - Empties the buffer</LI>
<LI>ReleaseMemory - Frees all currently consumed resources</LI>
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<p><font size = 6><u>Don't Take My Word For it</u></p>
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<p>    I've included everything in the zip.  A demonstration project is included as well as a full article complete
with graphs of the timing results for a variety of calls.  Nothing is faster and all the proof is free for the downloading. Please
leave your votes and feedback.
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