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Computations in finance can be quite time intensive, and are typically repeated many times with slightly modified (bumped) inputs to compute risks (finite diffe
by FabHK 6y ago
Computations in finance can be quite time intensive, and are typically repeated many times with slightly modified (bumped) inputs to compute risks (finite difference approximations to partial derivatives). An initial 5s startup is negligible then.
- qwerty456127 6y agoI know. That's Ok to add 5 seconds to a lengthy financial calculation, from the purely practical point of view. Nevertheless it still looks awkward. My entire computer boots in comparable time nowadays (perhaps some seconds more) and somehow a Python app takes this much just to start up in such an environment.
- C4stor 6y agoCloud-like run environments would typically have some network to do. Comparing booting an OS from a local SSD with booting from network-reachable resources isn't really fair due to huge difference in the performance of the "resource bus" assigned to each case in my opinion.