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

/**
 *
 * @author Jayson Falkner - jfalkner@umich.edu
 */
public class ManualBufferedIO {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        
        // do the buffered read
        FileInputStream is = new FileInputStream("C:/netbeans_projects/CodeExamples/src/WORD.LST");
        byte[] buf = new byte[100000];
        
        // start time
        long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        
        for (int i=is.read(buf);i!=-1;i=is.read(buf)) {
            // do nothing!
        }
        
        long stopTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        
        System.out.println("Time Required: "+(stopTime-startTime)+" milliseconds");
        
        is.close();
    }
}