> I can imagine few cases where first-to-right-the-bell performance on a single core determines if you get a specific quote in HFT but that's that. That is act

> I can imagine few cases where first-to-right-the-bell performance on a single core determines if you get a specific quote in HFT but that's that. That is actually the case from what I've heard, A lot of them buy consumer chips then disable all but one core and overclock it to the max. Here is a guy from optiver talking about their process at CppCon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH1Tta7purM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH1Tta7purM