High Speed Trading team using Java looking puzzled ....

https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/

Oh, I see, jokes from 30 years ago!

*OOM-kills 20 other programs on your PC while booting up*

If I'm not mistaken, OpenJ9 runtime offers some kind of precompilation and fast startup.

Don't put a 30gb heap on m4 boxes and you'll be okay

G1 is now the default garbage collector in 27.

It's on you bc it was (arguably but still) dead 17 years ago.

edit: don't get me wrong, i am not here to hate java, but bc i am also ... hm necrophil :)