Read large amount of data from file in Java

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Published on 2010-04-22T17:57:45Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 18:33 UTC
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Hello

I've got text file that contains 1 000 002 numbers in following formation:

123 456
1 2 3 4 5 6 .... 999999 100000

Now I need to read that data and allocate it to int variables (the very first two numbers) and all the rest (1 000 000 numbers) to an array int[].

It's not a hard task, but - it's horrible slow.

My first attempt was java.util.Scanner:

 Scanner stdin = new Scanner(new File("./path"));
 int n = stdin.nextInt();
 int t = stdin.nextInt();
 int array[] = new array[n];

 for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
     array[i] = stdin.nextInt();
 }

It works as excepted but it takes about 7500 ms to execute. I need to fetch that data in up to several hundred of milliseconds.

Then I tried java.io.BufferedReader:

Using BufferedReader.readLine() and String.split() I got the same results in about 1700 ms, but it's still too many.

How can I read that amount of data in less that 1 second? The final result should be equal to:

int n = 123;
int t = 456;
int array[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., 999999, 100000 };

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