On: The JVM is not that heavy

[Orangeair]

That's just Hello World, though. He said his app was parsing a 20 MB file.

To do a fair comparison, with your example, I just compiled and ran Hello World in Java on my machine and got this:

real 0.06 user 0.06 sys 0.01

[fnord123 → Orangeair]

Here you go:

https://bitbucket.org/ewanhiggs/csv-game