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Best way to read large Binary Files

Denise Advincula
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Joined: Jan 01, 2007
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Hello ranchers,

I wanted to use Java to read a large binary file but I'm having apprehensions that there might be other programming language that can read these big files faster. Can you advise me if Java is the best way to do it?

Looking forward to your advice. Thank you!


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William Brogden
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Reading binary files into byte arrays is a primitive operation limited by the operating system, not the programming language.

Bill

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I agree. Here's the link: http://zeroturnaround.com/jrebel - it saves me about five hours per week
 
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