Name: vi73552 Date: 03/11/99


I know this has been reported previously, but RandomAccessFile
has some *serious* defeciencies that *must* be addressed in
a future version of the JDK. As previously reported (4137835,
4170047 seem relevant), read(Int|Long|Double|Float) and the
corresponding write calls each make multiple (4 to 8) native
and most likely kernel calls. What is even worse though is
readUTF/writeUTF need to make 1026 native/kernel calls just to
read/write a 1024 byte String!!! In order to get any reasonable
performance everybody has to write their own silly wrapper
class or subclass of RandomAccessFile. In addition,
write/readUTF have an arbitrary maximum String length of 65535.
Strings can be a bit longer...

Don't ignore the problem and hope it will go away. Fix it.
*PLEASE*. Make a *new* class the people can use and deprecate
the old one. Do *something* other than ignoring the problem and
closing the bug reports.
(Review ID: 55370)
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