BufferedReader default buffer size?

Question

According to the documentation, BufferedReader(Reader) uses a default buffer size, while the second constructor, BufferedReader(Reader, int) allows

Answer 1

It isn't specified. On purpose. It's been 4096 for some years in the Sun/Oracle Java JDKs but don't rely on it.

Answer 2

Ans is 8 KB.

1024 bytes * 8 = 8192 (8 KB)
refer class : java.io.BufferedReader

private static int defaultCharBufferSize = 8192;

Answer 3

The default buffer size is 8192 characters

http://developer.android.com/reference/java/io/BufferedReader.html

 BufferedReader(Reader in)
Constructs a new BufferedReader, providing in with a buffer of 8192 characters.

Besides this documentation, I've extraced the rt.jar archive, and decompiled the BufferedReader.class from java.io.* using JD-GUI, this is what I found in the class definition:

private static int defaultCharBufferSize = 8192;

Answer 4

I'm sure I think it may be system/jvm dependent. Run this program:

What are the default buffer size for java.io.BufferedInputStream on old and exotic JVMs?

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;

public class BufferSizeDetector extends BufferedInputStream {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        BufferSizeDetector bsd = new BufferSizeDetector(null);

        System.err.println(System.getProperty("java.version"));
        System.err.println(bsd.getBufferSize());
    }

    public BufferSizeDetector(InputStream in) {
        super(in);
    }

    public int getBufferSize() {
        return super.buf.length;
    }
}

I get:

1.6.0_45
8192