in reply to Processing large files
Others have pointed out the real problem with your code but I would like to point out that with most IO architectures, you're probably not going to gain much performance by buffering your input this way -- the underlying library calls for read are probably already buffering. You may want to Benchmark your buffering approach with a standard line-by-line approach. If the differences are minimal, I would opt for the simpler code.
-derby
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