[PaulHoule]

C was built for a minicomputer which might or might not be the brains of a phone switch, a software development environment, a word processing cluster for a newspaper, industrial control for a steel mill, etc.

The thing about Java is that it has promised and delivered a much better threading experience than other programming languages. When somebody proved the Java memory model was unsafe, Sun fixed it. C and other languages have adopted essentially this memory model but a decade and a half later. Java provides bulletproof tools in forms of Executors, Latches and other specialized concurrency constructs. It takes time to learn to use them, but you can ship fast and correct code for something like the LMAX Disruptor.

[hmijail]

(Author here)

Actually, I think that talking about Java's multithreading here is a red herring; note that LMAX had to abandon multi-threading because it was destroying performance.

And this is important, because they explicitly made a very interesting point of current architectures being at odds with current thinking about best practices for concurrent programming.