CS202
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Efficiency Considerations
nWhile the code on the previous slide looks clean and simple, it has serious performance drawbacks.
nThis is because it
creates a temporary string object from the argument, creates a second temporary object as a result of the concatenation, and then uses the copy constructor to copy that temporary back into the original object (*this).
nIf the object was a large
object, this simple operation could
end up being very expensive!