[c++] What is the best way to concatenate two vectors?

One more simple variant which was not yet mentioned:

copy(A.begin(),A.end(),std::back_inserter(AB));
copy(B.begin(),B.end(),std::back_inserter(AB));

And using merge algorithm:

#include <algorithm> #include <vector> #include <iterator> #include <iostream> #include <sstream> #include <string> template<template<typename, typename...> class Container, class T> std::string toString(const Container<T>& v) { std::stringstream ss; std::copy(v.begin(), v.end(), std::ostream_iterator<T>(ss, "")); return ss.str(); }; int main() { std::vector<int> A(10); std::vector<int> B(5); //zero filled std::vector<int> AB(15); std::for_each(A.begin(), A.end(), [](int& f)->void { f = rand() % 100; }); std::cout << "before merge: " << toString(A) << "\n"; std::cout << "before merge: " << toString(B) << "\n"; merge(B.begin(),B.end(), begin(A), end(A), AB.begin(), [](int&,int&)->bool {}); std::cout << "after merge: " << toString(AB) << "\n"; return 1; }