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by jacquesm 94 days ago
Not necessarily. Java can be insanely performant, far more than I ever gave it credit for in the first decade of its existence. There has been a ton of optimization and you can now saturate your links even if you do fairly heavy processing. I'm still not a fan of the language but performance issues seem to be 'mostly solved'.
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"Saturating your links" is rarely the goal in HFT.

You want low deterministic latency with sharp tails.

If all you care about is throughput then deep pipelines + lots of threads will get you there at the cost of latency.