Should I always wrap an InputStream as BufferedInputStream?

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Published on 2010-06-03T07:36:05Z Indexed on 2010/06/03 7:54 UTC
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Does it make sense to always wrap an InputStream as BufferedInputStream, when I know whether the given InputStream is something other than buffered? For e.g:

InputStream is = API.getFromSomewhere()
if(!(is instanceof BufferedInputStream))
  return new BufferedInputStream(is);
return is;

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