What is more efficient: System.arraycopy or Arrays.copyOf?

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The difference is that Arrays.copyOf does not only copy elements, it also creates a new array. System.arraycopy copies into an existing array.

Here is the source for Arrays.copyOf, as you can see it uses System.arraycopy internally to fill up the new array:

public static <T,U> T[] copyOf(U[] original, int newLength, Class<? extends T[]> newType) {
    T[] copy = ((Object)newType == (Object)Object[].class)
        ? (T[]) new Object[newLength]
        : (T[]) Array.newInstance(newType.getComponentType(), newLength);
    System.arraycopy(original, 0, copy, 0,
                     Math.min(original.length, newLength));
    return copy;
}

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