Optimize: Improve performance using StringBuilder and reducing map lookups

[larrydiamond]

These are performance improvements with no new functionality.

StringBuilder will perform faster than StringBuffer as synchronization does not need to occur in these locations.
Iterating over an entrySet rather than a keySet and then looking up the entry will eliminate the need for N lookups.

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