reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream)) reader = new InputStreamReader(new BufferedInputStream(inputStream)) which is better? why?

I'm experimenting with Go channels and have an issue where the simple program below does not terminate. Essentially I want to make some async HTTP get requests and then wait till they are all fini...

I want to use a buffered stream because I want to use a peek() method to peek ahead but use my stream with another method that expects a file-like object. (I'd use seek() but may have to handle pip...

I couldn't find a way to create a slice of buffered channels in golang. I know how to create slice of unbuffered channel given as below type ch chan int channels := make([]ch,5)

I have a log file which gets updated every second. I need to read the log file periodically, and once I do a read, I need to store the file pointer position at the end of the last line I read and i...

Considering pipes in Windows command shell cmd.exe: C:\>feed | filter The standard output from the feeding process doesn't seem to reach the standard input of the filtering process until AFTE...

There is this code: public class Main { public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception { System.out.print("1"); doAnything(); System.out.println("2"); } private static void d...

I understand that by default all stream IO supported by C++ is buffered. This means that data to be output is put into a buffer till it is full and then sent to the output device, similarly for in...

In case of buffered stream it said in a book that it wait until the buffer is full to write back to the monitor. For example: cout << "hi"; What do they mean by "the buffer is full". c...

(apologies for the somewhat lengthy intro) During development of an application which prefaults an entire large file (>400MB) into the buffer cache for speeding up the actual run later, I tested w...

Section 7.19.3/7 of c99 states that: At program start-up, three text streams are predefined and need not be opened explicitly - standard input (for reading conventional input), standard output (fo...

I am sorry if this is a duplicate but I was not able to find a definitive answer to what is the best practice for each type. I would like to know what the appropriate conditions are that define wh...