Recently on InfoQ, Aliaksei Papou posted an article on some of his experiments with high performance interchange of messages between threads. There were a number of examples within the article, but I am going to focus on the multi-producer case. One of the optimisations that the article showed was that if you knew the number of producers that you have at initialisation time you can build a structure that significantly reduces contention. The existing MultiProducerSequencer does not have this constraint, which is essential for a large number of use cases. However, I wanted to see what we could achieve if I applied this approach to this Disruptor.
