How fast can you read a very large csv file and compute min, max, average aggregation out of it (Part 1)

Here’s a coding challenge: how fast can you compute simple calculations from values read from a very very very large csv file… in Java ! Reading (large) files is a common problem every developer has to solve once in his life. Providing a quick solution is easy and takes a couple of minutes but providing an efficient solution is harder. Effectiveness is a relative concept but if you like to do things the best way you can in that case we can say it is the capability of producing a…