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by mzl 1373 days ago
> There are HFT systems using Java, few were on HN even.

The HFT systems I know about in Java are mostly not recognizable as Java to most Java programmers. They use static allocation of all data making sure that there is no risk of a GC interrupt and have a fixed set of threads that have assigned cores.

It is sometimes a reasonable way to build a system, but very seldom.