add pluggable ThreadFactory

[0xg0nz0]

Great library, and just what I was looking for today ....

Right now the loop thread provides a fixed ThreadFactory. It would be useful performance-wise to make this pluggable, e.g. to use Peter Lawrey's Java-Thread-Affinity library and

https://github.com/OpenHFT/Java-Thread-Affinity/blob/master/affinity/src/main/java/net/openhft/affinity/AffinityThreadFactory.java

You can dedicate a core to the busy-spin loop, and use the Linux isolcpus command to exclude operating system calls from it. You'll thus get a guaranteed 100% of the core for high-precision scheduling, with no kernel scheduling jitter.

    this.loop = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor(new ThreadFactory() {
      AtomicInteger i = new AtomicInteger();

      @Override
      public Thread newThread(Runnable r) {
        Thread thread = new Thread(r, name + "-" + i.getAndIncrement());
        thread.setDaemon(true);
        return thread;
      }
    });

[ifesdjeen]

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