When the binary stream is very large, the overhead of adding 448 bytes (the code above in the sequence corresponding to byte values 0, 1, … 255) to define the mapping is negligible.

Java 22 introduces stream gatherers, a new mechanism for manipulating streams of data. Stream gatherers are the delivered feature for JEP 461, allowing developers to create custom intermediate ...

Streams All of Java's I/O facilities are based on streams that represent flowing sequences of characters or bytes. Java's I/O streams provide standardized ways to read and write data.