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 For details about the modifying the code, building the project, running tests, IDE integration, etc. see
 our [Hacking Guide](./docs/hacking-guide/en/SUMMARY.md).
 
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 ## Building the ASYNC IO library
 
 ActiveMQ Artemis provides two journal persistence types, NIO (which uses the Java NIO libraries), and ASYNCIO which interacts with the linux kernel libaio library.   The ASYNCIO journal type should be used where possible as it is far superior in terms of performance.