Re: Speeding up reading from files

Hi,

I am using a BufferedReader to read character data in from a file. It
works but it's incredibly slow. (The file consists of a number of
separate messages, each separated by a special character. Each
message must be read into a separate string.)

I use the following code (exception handling removed for brevity):

             String text = new String("");
             BufferedReader in = null;
             in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new
FileInputStream(_msgFile)));
             int c;
             while ((c = in.read()) != -1) {
                 if (c == '@') {
                     _msgList.add(text);
                     text = "";
                 } else {
                     text += (char)c;
                 }
             }
             if (text.length()> 0) {
                 _msgList.add(text);
             }