This note summarizes the "hotpath" discussed in netty/netty#15741, based on the PR discussion plus Frigg inspection of the merged code in this checkout.
Merged commit in this tree: accd981104dfe23dbe6208a16d197b7b3f5b8c94
The PR discussion points to the adaptive allocator's thread-local direct-allocation fast path, not a general allocator slow path.