what is the difference between a buffered stream and a byte array stream?
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The javadocs is a good place to search for knowledge about Java classes.Originally posted by Ale -
They're two completely different beasts: a byte array stream reads bytes directlyOriginally posted by Ale
from an array of bytes, while a buffered stream neads another stream to read its
bytes from. When you ask it to read one or more bytes it reads a whole chunk
of bytes in its buffer and hands out those byte to you whenever you want to read
more bytes; the buffered stream doesn't need to 'ask' the other stream for more
bytes all the time, i.e. it uses its buffer for that purpose.
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