> But suppose I am going to open the connection, make one call to > "optThingy.write(myBigString)", then close the connection. If I'm > *always* going to use this idiom, does a BufferedWriter serve any > purpose? Is it just overhead in this case?
It's just overhead, and the BufferWriter docs actually say as much, arguably, although it's certainly not as straightforward. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/java/io/BufferedWriter.html Without buffering, each invocation of a print() method would cause characters to be converted into bytes that would then be written immediately to the file, which can be very inefficient. -- James Manning <http://www.sublogic.com/james/> GPG Key fingerprint = B913 2FBD 14A9 CE18 B2B7 9C8E A0BF B026 EEBB F6E4 _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org
