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 The One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) is a fun exploration of how far modern Java can be pushed for aggregating one billion rows from a text file.
 Grab all your (virtual) threads, reach out to SIMD, optimize your GC, or pull any other trick, and create the fastest implementation for solving this task!
 
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 The text file contains temperature values for a range of weather stations.
 Each row is one measurement in the format `<string: station name>;<double: measurement>`.
 The following shows ten rows as an example: