If you want to make your first example faster
FileChannel inChannel = new FileInputStream(fileName).getChannel(); ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(CAPACITY); while(inChannel.read(buffer) > 0) buffer.clear(); // do something with the data and clear/compact it. inChannel.close();
If you want it to be even faster.
FileChannel inChannel = new RandomAccessFile(fileName, "r").getChannel(); MappedByteBuffer buffer = inChannel.map(FileChannel.MapMode.READ_ONLY, 0, inChannel.size()); // access the buffer as you wish. inChannel.close();