A better way of Queuing

The LMAX guys have open-sourced their Disruptor queue implementation. Their stats show some significant improvements (over an order of magnitude) over standard ArrayBlockingQueues in a range of concurrent tests. Both interesting and useful.

http://code.google.com/p/disruptor/

Posted on June 27th, 2011 in Blog

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