(Author here) Actually, I think that talking about Java's multithreading here is a red herring; note that LMAX had to abandon multi-threading because it was de

(Author here) Actually, I think that talking about Java's multithreading here is a red herring; note that LMAX had to abandon multi-threading because it was destroying performance. And this is important, because they explicitly made a very interesting point of current architectures being at odds with current thinking about best practices for concurrent programming.