If you want to see an implementation along the lines that jhallenworld describes Martin Thomson has some very high quality implementations here in Java. These a

If you want to see an implementation along the lines that jhallenworld describes Martin Thomson has some very high quality implementations here in Java. These are just single producer, single consumer queues https://github.com/mjpt777/examples/tree/master/src/java/uk/co/real_logic/queues https://github.com/mjpt777/examples/tree/master/src/java/uk/... I have a number of Go implementations of the same queues here https://github.com/fmstephe/queues https://github.com/fmstephe/queues