Unofficial Speed Test: CF8, CF9, and Railo (OpenBD to come next)

I'm working on a large Flex project that is backed by CF (I'm the resident CF nerd ... no cool Flex stuff for me!). We're getting near the stage that a v1 (or Google Beta) will go live. When the initial server was setup, CF9 was not yet released nor had Railo and OpenBD been fully open-sourced. Understandably, a CF8 license was purchased and remains in use.

Earlier today, I ran a basic test between CF8, CF9, and Railo because my local copy of CF8 was taking forever to perform a certain task. This is totally unofficial but the difference in speed/performance between CF8 and CF9/Railo 3.1.1 was so shocking I wanted to add a post about it: 

The Process:

1. Read a 745 KB tab-delimited text file
2. Loop over the contents of the file line-by-line (ignoring line 1)
3. With each iteration, create an object 
4. Populate the object's properties from the current lines' content (there are only 6 items per line that map to the 6 properties in the bean or object)
5. Add the newly created object to an array
6. When done, return the array of objects to the calling template
7. Loop over the array and output a few properties for each item in the array