What's the fastest way to read from System.in in Java?

Question

I am reading bunch of integers separated by space or newlines from the standard in using Scanner(System.in).

Is there any faster way of doing this in Ja

Answer 1

In programming perspective this customized Scan and Print class is way better than Java inbuilt Scanner and BufferedReader classes.

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.InputMismatchException;
import java.io.IOException;

public class Scan
{

private byte[] buf = new byte[1024];

private int total;
private int index;
private InputStream in;

public Scan()
{
    in = System.in;
}

public int scan() throws IOException
{

    if(total < 0)
        throw new InputMismatchException();

    if(index >= total)
    {
        index = 0;
        total = in.read(buf);
        if(total <= 0)
            return -1;
    }

    return buf[index++];
}


public int scanInt() throws IOException
{

    int integer = 0;

    int n = scan();

    while(isWhiteSpace(n))   /*  remove starting white spaces   */
        n = scan();

    int neg = 1;
    if(n == '-')
    {
        neg = -1;
        n = scan();
    }

    while(!isWhiteSpace(n))
    {

        if(n >= '0' && n <= '9')
        {
            integer *= 10;
            integer += n-'0';
            n = scan();
        }
        else
            throw new InputMismatchException();
    }

    return neg*integer;
}


public String scanString()throws IOException
{
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

    int n = scan();

    while(isWhiteSpace(n))
        n = scan();

    while(!isWhiteSpace(n))
    {
        sb.append((char)n);
        n = scan();
    }

    return sb.toString();
}


public double scanDouble()throws IOException
{
    double doub=0;
    int n=scan();
    while(isWhiteSpace(n))
    n=scan();
    int neg=1;
    if(n=='-')
    {
        neg=-1;
        n=scan();
    }
    while(!isWhiteSpace(n)&& n != '.')
    {
        if(n>='0'&&n<='9')
        {
            doub*=10;
            doub+=n-'0';
            n=scan();
        }
        else throw new InputMismatchException();
    }
    if(n=='.')
    {
        n=scan();
        double temp=1;
        while(!isWhiteSpace(n))
        {
            if(n>='0'&&n<='9')
            {
                temp/=10;
                doub+=(n-'0')*temp;
                n=scan();
            }
            else throw new InputMismatchException();
        }
    }
    return doub*neg;
}

public boolean isWhiteSpace(int n)
{
    if(n == ' ' || n == '\n' || n == '\r' || n == '\t' || n == -1)
        return true;

    return false;
}

public void close()throws IOException
{
    in.close();
}
}

And the customized Print class can be as follows

import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;

public class Print
{
private BufferedWriter bw;

public Print()
{
    this.bw = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(System.out));
}


public void print(Object object)throws IOException
{
    bw.append("" + object);
}

public void println(Object object)throws IOException
{
    print(object);
    bw.append("\n");
}


public void close()throws IOException
{
    bw.close();
}

}