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> Isn't speed a huge factor in that industry? Exactly. There are a lot of high performance system written in Java. For long running systems, the startup cost i
by eternalban 10y ago
> Isn't speed a huge factor in that industry?
Exactly. There are a lot of high performance system written in Java. For long running systems, the startup cost is irrelevant. And for networked systems (such as fintech) you are going to be IO bound. The main issue as far as Java and high performance is the GC related pauses and that is a concern shared with any GC'd runtime.
- PeCaN 10y agoAnd for Java it's actually much less of an issue thanks to the crazy manhours put into developing fast GC for Java. I suspect Azul Systems's pauseless GC is probably quite popular in HFT.
- brianwawok 10y agoThey are trying to sell it for sure. They attend a lot of events. I am not aware of any trading company using it. May be some.. but the high perf people I know go other ways.