采用的策略:1)先比较两个文件的长度,如果不一样则文件肯定不一样

                         2)如果文件一样长则将文件读取出来一个字节一个字节的比较他们的内容是否相同

代码:

package file;


 import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;


 public class FileCompare
 {
     public FileCompare(String file1,String file2)
     {
         this.file1 = file1;
         this.file2 = file2;
     }
     
     public static void main(String [] args)
     {
         System.out.println("please input the two files' full path and name:");
         System.out.println("File1:");
         String file1 = inputFileName();
         System.out.println("File2:");
         String file2 = inputFileName();
         System.out.println("Start to compare ...");
         FileCompare fileCompare = new FileCompare(file1, file2);
         fileCompare.compareFile(file1, file2);
     }
     private void compareFile(String file1,String file2)
     {
         try
         {
             BufferedInputStream inFile1 = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file1));
             BufferedInputStream inFile2 = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file2));
             
             long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
             //比较文件的长度是否一样
             if(inFile1.available() == inFile2.available())
             {
                 while(inFile1.read() != -1 && inFile2.read() != -1)
                 {
                     if(inFile1.read() != inFile2.read())
                     {
                         System.out.println("Files not same");
                         break;
                     }
                 }
                 System.out.println("two files are same !");
             }
             else
             {
                 System.out.println("two files are different !");
             }
             inFile1.close();
             inFile2.close();
             System.out.println("Time Consumed: "+(System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime) + "ms");
             return ;
         }
         catch (FileNotFoundException e)
         {
             e.printStackTrace();
         }
         catch (IOException e)
         {
             e.printStackTrace();
         }
     }
     private static String inputFileName()
     {
         BufferedReader buffRead1 = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
         String fileName = null;
         try
         {
             fileName = buffRead1.readLine();
         }
         catch (IOException e)
         {
             e.printStackTrace();
         }
         return fileName;
     }
     public String getFile1()
     {
         return file1;
     }
     public void setFile1(String file1)
     {
         this.file1 = file1;
     }
     public String getFile2()
     {
         return file2;
     }
     public void setFile2(String file2)
     {
         this.file2 = file2;
     }
     private String file1 = null;
     private String file2 = null;
 }

本来以为这样会比较慢,而且担心当文件很大的时候内存会吃不消,但是事实证明我的担心是多余的,一下是测试数据:

(文件相同的情况下,不同的时候会很快O(∩_∩)O~)

240K   jpg文件:13ms

78.4M  exe文件:1314ms

637M   rmvb文件:23539ms

1.53G  rmvb文件:52412ms

本人机器配置如下:

cpu :inte i5 3.2GHz 

内存:4G

操作系统:32位机 win7 

测试下来这样比较的性能其实感觉还是不错的