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

[Alan Bateman]

On 19/09/2018 22:02, Roger Riggs wrote:
> This came up in off-line discussions, it seems unlikely that two files 
> will differ only in the last of 100Mb
> and it will require a separate code path that will very infrequently 
> be exercised.  So I'd still to a single
> technique even if it is slightly slower for very large files to keep 
> the size of the code in check.
> If it shows up later as a performance problem it can be added.
>
I think this will eventually have a different implementation for the 
default file system where it can used memory mapping of file files. If 
the first 1MB of large files are identical then that it might switch 
over to mapping by chunk to compare the rest of the file. Starting out 
with a basic implementation is okay of course.

-Alan.