Concurrent reading of a File (java preferred)

Question

I have a large file that takes multiple hours to process. So I am thinking of trying to estimate chunks and read the chunks in parallel.

Is it possible to to concurr

Answer 1

If you're reading a file from a hard drive, then the fastest way to get the data is to read the file from start to end, that is, not concurrently.

Now if it's the processing that takes time, then that might benefit from having several threads processing different chunks of data concurrently, but that has nothing to do with how you're reading the file.