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by amunra__ 996 days ago
Maybe we should write a blog post, though there's gotta be one out there for this already.

The short of it is: Learn C. Learn your system calls. Learn JNI. Learn about com.sun.misc.Unsafe. Learn about the disruptor pattern. Learn how to pool objects. The long type can pack a lot of data. Go from there!