Processing Large Files – Java, Go and 'hitting the wall'

In January Stuart Marks published a blog post named “Processing Large Files in Java” as a response to a post by Paige Niedringhaus about “Using Java to Read Really, Really Large Files”. Niedringhaus there reports her experience with JavaScript to solve a “coding challenge” where a “very large file” has to be processed and four specific questions where asked about the processed file. After solving the challenge in JavaScript, Niedringhaus then moved forward and successfully implemented a solution to the challenge in Java as she was curious about Java and how to do it in that language. Read more