RFR(JDK12/NIO) 8202285: (fs) Add a method to Files for comparing file contents

[Brian Burkhalter]

On Sep 19, 2018, at 1:52 PM, Brian Burkhalter <brian.burkhalter at oracle.com> wrote:

>> For the buffered case, could there be any performance advantage to using direct buffers with FileChannel and comparing running checksums of the two sources?
> 
> Don’t think this would work however as two files with differing content could conceivable have the same checksum however likely that might be.


s/conceivable /conceivably/.
s/likely/unlikely/.

Brian
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