NIO Performance Improvement compared to traditional IO in Java

Question

I have seen many articles/blogs saying that Java NIO is a better solution compared to traditional Java IO.

But today one of my co-worker showed me this blog http://m

Answer 1

Also, AFAIK, Java IO was rewritten to use NIO under-the-covers (and NIO has more functionality). Microbenchmarks are just a bad idea, particularly when they're old, as lavinio states.