ZipInputStream brokenness

Mon Sep 2 12:22:00 GMT 2002

Per> Adam Megacz wrote:
Per> > If you want buffering, you should wrap a BufferedInputStream around
Per> > it. Buffering can be added, but not removed, which is why it is not
Per> > automatic.
Per>
Per> I interpreted Jeff's message that Sun's code *does* do the byffering,
Per> in which we should probably also do it.
Per>
Per> Besides, I don't see any reason that you'd ever want to *not* buffer,
Per> at least when using a FileInputStream,.
I thought Jeff was talking about ZipFile's use of a RandomAccessFile, 
and that the solution would be to use mmap either by writing native
code for ZipFile, or implementing java.nio and having ZipFile use that.