I think that most experienced Java developers are aware ... to take roughly four times as long to execute as the loops using the String literal directly without the extra “new.” ...

The next version of Java SE, JDK 12, has reached the first ... But one major proposal for JDK 12, raw string literals, has been removed. According to the JEP, "A raw string literal can span ...

Java SE 13 (Sept 2019) introduced text blocks as a preview feature, aimed at reducing the pain of declaring and using multi-line string literals in Java. It was subsequently refined in a second ...