Java-reading a file, performance difference between Byte and Character Streams
<p>Pretty simple question: what's the performance difference between a Byte Stream and a Character Stream?</p>

<p>The reason I ask is because I'm implementing level loading from a file, and initially I decided I would just use a Byte Stream for the purpose, because it's the simplest type, and  thus it should perform the best. But then I figured that it might be nice to be able to read and write the level files via a text editor instead of writing a more complex level editor (to start off with). In order for it to be legible by a text editor, I would need to use Character streams instead of Byte streams, so I'm wondering if there's really any performance difference worth mentioning between the two methods? At the moment it doesn't really matter much since level loading is infrequent, but I'd be interested to know for future reference, for instances where I might need to load levels from hard drive on the fly (large levels).</p>
