I was writing a little code that uses RandomAccessFile and was
astonished at how slow it was. A little googling tells me why.. it's
using unbuffered I/O.
I modified my code to use a buffered RandomAccessFile class from
http://uio.imagero.com/ and it's almost 10x faster now.
This made me wonder where we're using RandomAccessFile within GNU
Classpath. It looks like it shows up in a few places that could use
some buffering (image i/o, and maybe even zipfile). I don't recommend
using the uio library for this, but writing a little buffered
RandomAccessFile for internal use seems like it should be easy (google
will point you at many simple versions).
I don't plan on doing this myself, but just thought I'd mention it here
in case somebody wants to look into this.
AG
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