Given this is HN, a good analogy would be millisecond read times. I had a fellow snarky student once ask me “so you get bored in 1ms?” The answer for finance i

Given this is HN, a good analogy would be millisecond read times. I had a fellow snarky student once ask me “so you get bored in 1ms?” The answer for finance is just the same as for computer science, you are doing things many times with big volumes, so tiny differences ass up.