This example from 2005 reads an 80mb text file in 2 seconds on an AMD 64 2.2ghz, 1gb ram, SATA 10k rpm/s machine (a fast machine in 2005!). This example will be expanded upon in the coming months to include things I discovered from the 'Statmagic' library I created (a log reader API).

Note: the method listed will not reliably read binary files in (or infact unicode), as it uses a char array not a byte array.