The nice thing with Akka streams and a Source[ByteString, _] is that you can
easily swap it for a different source without changing the rest of your impl :-)
The current impl uses nio.FileChannel with ByteBuffers which proved to give
very good performance - and I've benchmarked a number of impls
I just want to make sure I am using the most promising alternative for
I/O... I was reading files on my own with a low-level Java library, and I
wasn't using nio yet. I wasn't sure if I was going to update it to use Java
8 stuff, try out akka.io, or move to akka-stream. I think I am going with
Hi Nicolau,
this problem is not limited to Akka: most operating systems do not provide true
asynchronous file I/O themselves. We will eventually make use of Java 8’s
facilities (once Streams move into the master branch), but beware that the
asynchrony of the solution depends on deployment
