Re: NIO! Nein!

Chris Uppal wrote:
Never use available().

It doesn't do what most programmers think. If there are /any/ valid (safe and
correct) uses of it, I have yet to hear of them.

Never use available().

It's used by java.io.BufferedinputStream.read to see if fill any more of its buffer without blocking.

For a brief time mustang had a peabody fix that tried harder to fill the buffer. Unfortunately, for some streams available will often return 1. If you try to read exactly the amount returned by available, that can result in a vastly increased number of read (and available) calls, killing performance.

Tom Hawtin
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