Don't use temporty files by default for all PDF sizes
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Key: PDFBOX-948
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-948
Project: PDFBox
Issue Type: Wish
Affects Versions: 1.5.0
Reporter: Martin Koegler
PDFBOX uses by default temporary files as work space (regardless of the PDF
size).
org.apache.pdfbox.io.RandomAcessFile is not buffered, so each read/write acess
is a system call. There are functions like readlong, which call read 4 times
to read 4 bytes. Additionally, it adds the usual problems with tempory files.
For normal sized PDFs files, the in-memory implementation RandomAccessBuffer
should not increase the memory usage too much, while providing faster IO as all
access operations are only memory copies.
Therefore, please consider switching the default to in-memory scratch buffers.
Users with very large files can still pass a temporary directory.
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