Sure, but I'm assuming that if you're writing such high performance limited scope software like the LMAX disruptor, you have few dependencies (looking at their

Sure, but I'm assuming that if you're writing such high performance limited scope software like the LMAX disruptor, you have few dependencies (looking at their code, it appears that the disruptor code itself has no external dependencies and uses few of the standard library classes outside of NIO bytebuffers).