title: What is faster in Java for reading/parsing console input, Scanner or BufferedReader?
body: <p>I have to craft a data processor able to process more than 2.5MB/s of input from STDIN, and output a number to STDOUT. What is faster, to use a BufferedReader and then conversions to data types or a Scanner and nextInt() or nextFloat()?</p>
  
  <p>EMPIRICAL TEST RESULTS: BufferedReader and conversion is a little bit faster, but nothing too significant.</p>
  
  <p>Thankyou!</p>