import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;

/**
 *
 * @author Jayson Falkner - jfalkner@umich.edu
 */
public class BufferedIO {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        
        // do the non-buffered read
        FileInputStream is = new FileInputStream("C:/netbeans_projects/CodeExamples/src/WORD.LST");
        BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(is);
        
        // start time
        long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        
        for (int i=bis.read();i!=-1;i=bis.read()) {
            // do nothing!
        }
        
        long stopTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        
        System.out.println("Time Required: "+(stopTime-startTime)+" milliseconds");
        
        bis.close();
        is.close();
        
    }
}