Re: BufferdInputStream, how they work?

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From: Steve Horsley
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:00

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Glad you got it working, Jason.

Sorry to hijack your thread, but this subject is something I have been
wondering about for a while...

The Sun JDK documentation describes a buffered reader as repeatedly 
reading the input stream character-by-character in order to fill the 
buffer. This sounds absurd to me - I would expect files to be 
block-read for efficiency.

Does anyone know exactly how the buffered reader works (on files).
Does it actually block-read, or does it really make repeated calls
to the input stream for individual characters?

I expect the answer would dramatically affect performance.

Regards,
Steve.

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