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As far I understand it, FPGAs are used in trading for their low-latency response. It is hard to respond in software much faster than 5 us, even using kernel by
by HockeyPlayer 10y ago
As far I understand it, FPGAs are used in trading for their low-latency response. It is hard to respond in software much faster than 5 us, even using kernel bypass, etc.
- pinewurst 10y agoThey're not implicitly low latency though. FPGAs are about having the control and resources to structure workloads to complete in a minimum number of clock cycles. It's not an automatic thing you get by cross-compiling a C program onto a different platform.