Fastest way of reading relatively huge byte-files in Java

Question

what\'s the probably fastest way of reading relatively huge files with Java\'s I/O-methods? My current solution uses the BufferedInputStream saving to an byte-a

Answer 1

Have a look at Java NIO (Non-Blocking Input/Output) API. Also, this question might prove being useful.

I don't have much experience with IO, but I've heard that NIO is much more efficient way of handling large sets of data.