BufferedInputStream's Default Buffer Size Compared to Hard Disk Size
3rd in a series of posts about java.io.BufferedInputStream's Default Buffer Size
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We can see that Java's BufferedInputStream (BIS) default buffer size has grown over time. I thought it would be interesting to compare it against other metrics in Computer Science, the most famous of which is Moore's Law, which I compared with BIS in my last post. This time around, I have the data points from describing the capacity of hard disks sold during the years since Java's debut.
In the next post I'll be comparing BIS's default buffer size with the speed of serial buses (which are commonly used to interface a disc drive to the CPU and memory) over time.
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