A couple things. I don't see the looping that you're talking about in the java versions. The java version from the original poster provides 2 methods for copying, and both read the whole contents of the file into an array and then write that array out to a new file. So the overall idea *is* the same: read the entire first file into memory, write that memory to a second file.

Also, you do realize that the java "version" is actually 2 different methods? So it's not really as long as it appears. Additionally, condensing the JDK 1.4 version I gave below down to some hideuos anonymous objects it gets pretty short. Not on par with the perl version, but hey, that's one of perl's features. 

import java.io.*;
import java.nio.*;
import java.nio.channels.*;

public class X2 {
  public static void main (String [] args) throws Exception {
    FileChannel in = new FileInputStream(args[0]).getChannel();
    new FileOutputStream(args[1]).getChannel().write(in.map(
      FileChannel.MapMode.READ_ONLY, 0, in.size()));
  }
}

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Cheers,

- danboo

In reply to Re: Re: Java vs. Perl file I/O benchmarks; valid test? by danboo
in thread Java vs. Perl file I/O benchmarks; valid test? by meonkeys

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