Large selection lists and fast string concatenation in JavaScript

Sometimes a selection list needs to be filled dynamically depending on the state of another control
(e.g. when the user selects a country and a selection list must contain the cities in this country,
or when the user selects a singer and a selection list must contain his/her songs).
Unfortunately, the usual way of creating a selection list with a large number of items is quite slow …

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