Best way to get an InputStream for the second half of a file?

Question

I need an InputStream to read from some nonzero offset in a File. Which is the more performant way to get and position the stream,

InputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
in.skip(n);

or

RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile(file, "r");
InputStream in = Channels.newInputStream(raf.getChannel().position(n));

Or is there a better way that you'd suggest?

Only one stream will be pulled from the file, so there's no benefit from reusing the RandomAccessFile.

Answer 1

Behind the scenes I believe the methods work in exactly the same way (for FileInputStreams which override the default implementation of skip). And thus there being no appreciable difference in performance.

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