Which areas to focus on when testing C# vs Java performance (execution)?

Question

I am working on a school project, where I need to develop a hypothesis to be verified or falsified. My hypothesis is that C# execution time is faster than Java execution time on Windows, because C# is developed by Microsoft. Some of you might already know the answer to this hypothesis, and there have probably been studies that document this. But it does not matter, i just need to make this project myself.

So i would like some ideas on areas to focus on, and how to measure them?

P.S It should not be too complicated.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Some things I would test:

The time to open a file, write a line to it, and close it.

The time to open a network connection.

The time to open a database connection, write a single byte to it, and then close the connection.

The time to create and populate an array, a standard ArrayList, and a generic ArrayList.

The time to do sorting, using different algorithms.

The time to run a large loop.