smarty/go-disruptor

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Go port of the LMAX Disruptor, a high-performance inter-thread/goroutine messaging library built on a pre-allocated ring buffer. It achieves hundreds of millions of messages per second between goroutines by avoiding locks and garbage collection pressure, far outperforming Go channels.

Use cases

• pass messages between goroutines at maximum throughput
• replace slow Go channels in hot paths
• build low-latency event processing pipelines
• avoid GC pauses from message allocation
• fan out messages to consumer groups in sequence

When to choose

• you need an order of magnitude more throughput than channels provide
• consistent, predictable message processing latency matters
• you can structure consumers as handler groups on a ring buffer

When to avoid

• your message rates are modest and channels suffice
• you need network-distributed messaging rather than in-process
• you want a simple, familiar API over raw performance

Facets

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concurrency message-queue developer-tools performance microservices go cross-platform lmax-disruptor ring-buffer high-throughput lock-free garbage-free inter-goroutine-messaging

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