Why use Java's AsynchronousFileChannel?

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Published on 2010-05-04T05:24:39Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 5:28 UTC
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I can understand why network apps would use multiplexing (to not create too many threads), and why programs would use async calls for pipelining (more efficient). But I don't understand the purpose of AsynchronousFileChannel.

Any ideas?

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