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An ArrayBuffer buffer holds an array and a size. Most operations on an array buffer have the same speed as for an array, because the operations simply access and modify the underlying array. Additionally, array buffers can have data efficiently added to the end. Appending an item to an array buffer takes amortized constant time. Thus, array buffers are useful for efficiently building up a large collection whenever the new items are always added to the end.
scala> val buf = scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.empty[Int]
buf: scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer[Int] = ArrayBuffer()
scala> buf += 1
res32: buf.type = ArrayBuffer(1)
scala> buf += 10
res33: buf.type = ArrayBuffer(1, 10)
scala> buf.toArray
res34: Array[Int] = Array(1, 10)
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