You can always use the a constructor for string which takes a char and a number of times you want that character repeated: string myString = new string(‘*’, 5000); This gives you a string of 5000 stars – tweak to your needs.
My experience with larger files sizes has been that java.nio is faster than java.io. Solidly faster. Like in the >250% range. That said, I am eliminating obvious bottlenecks, which I suggest your micro-benchmark might suffer from. Potential areas for investigating: The buffer size. The algorithm you basically have is copy from disk to buffer copy … Read more
Note: the Nintendo 64 does have a 64-bit processor, however: Many games took advantage of the chip’s 32-bit processing mode as the greater data precision available with 64-bit data types is not typically required by 3D games, as well as the fact that processing 64-bit data uses twice as much RAM, cache, and bandwidth, thereby … Read more