Is there a way to build a Java String using an SLF4J-style formatting function?

Question

I\'ve heard that using StringBuilder is faster than using string concatenation, but I\'m tired of wrestling with StringBuilder objects all of the time. I was recently exposed t

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Plus it worth bearing in min that String.format() is a bad implementation of sprintf done with regexps, so if you profile your code you will see an patterns and int[] that you were not expecting. MessageFormat and the slf MessageFormmater are generally faster and allocate less junk