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I want to read a file in a programming language (i.e. java). Usually the method signature is 

   byte[] readBytes(int numberOfBytes) .

The number of bytes should be a multiple of the block size of the format used by the Operating system (i.e. Windows 4096)? Which is a number of bytes I should specify to get really good performance? What is the difference between the BufferedInputStream, and a normal InputStream?

Thanks.

pokeRex110
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You don't have to worry about that (anymore, fortunately!). It's up to the OS to manage correctly and transparent to application programmer.

m0skit0
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