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marcosdumay
926 days ago
High speed fiance is mostly done in Java and Haskell, because mistakes are expensive. (And yeah, it's one of the very few fields that Haskell enters the list.)
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alex_smart
926 days ago
HFTs have pretty much all moved to FPGAs for sub-microsecond latencies in past few years. C++ can’t compete with that, let alone Java or Haskell.
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namtab00
926 days ago
Jane Street is all-in on OCaml.
Their podcast titled "Signals and Threads" is quite interesting.
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kyawzazaw
926 days ago
They maybe the sole one that does not use C++
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kajaktum
926 days ago
Wouldn't the tail latency really mess with you tho? You could be doing really bad things with bad data.
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jjgreen
926 days ago
Now a "high speed fiance" is something you should be
really
careful around
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champagnepapi
926 days ago
oh wow! I had no idea at all. I'll have to read more about this :)
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