Most optimized way of concatenation in strings

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Here is a small test suite:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <chrono>
#include <sstream>

int main ()
{
    typedef std::chrono::high_resolution_clock clock;
    typedef std::chrono::duration<float, std::milli> mil;
    std::string l_czTempStr;
    std::string s1="Test data1";
    auto t0 = clock::now();
    #if VER==1
    for (int i = 0; i < 100000; ++i)
    {
        l_czTempStr = s1 + "Test data2" + "Test data3";
    }
    #elif VER==2
    for (int i = 0; i < 100000; ++i)
    {
        l_czTempStr =  "Test data1"; 
        l_czTempStr += "Test data2";
        l_czTempStr += "Test data3";
    }
    #elif VER==3
    for (int i = 0; i < 100000; ++i)
    {
        l_czTempStr =  "Test data1"; 
        l_czTempStr.append("Test data2");
        l_czTempStr.append("Test data3");
    }
    #elif VER==4
    for (int i = 0; i < 100000; ++i)
    {
        std::ostringstream oss;
        oss << "Test data1";
        oss << "Test data2";
        oss << "Test data3";
        l_czTempStr = oss.str();
    }
    #endif
    auto t1 = clock::now();
    std::cout << l_czTempStr << '\n';
    std::cout << mil(t1-t0).count() << "ms\n";
}

On coliru:

Compile with the following:

clang++ -std=c++11 -O3 -DVER=1 -Wall -pedantic -pthread main.cpp

21.6463ms

-DVER=2

6.61773ms

-DVER=3

6.7855ms

-DVER=4

102.015ms

It looks like 2), += is the winner.

(Also compiling with and without -pthread seems to affect the timings)

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