LMAX also spent a ton of time doing non-standard things with data structures to optimize cache and prevent heap allocation: https://martinfowler.com/articles/lm

LMAX also spent a ton of time doing non-standard things with data structures to optimize cache and prevent heap allocation: https://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html https://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html Unnecessary allocations will be your bottle neck at some point when shutting data around.