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Re: ZipInputStream brokenness

Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:
> > If you want buffering, you should wrap a BufferedInputStream around
> > it.   Buffering can be added, but not removed, which is why it is not
> > automatic.

> Besides, I don't see any reason that you'd ever want to *not* buffer,

I can think of plenty; see the comment at the top of
gnu.gcj.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getHttpHeaders() for a great
example of how buffering can be bad.

  - a

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