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I wonder if this code was written in c++ or similar, the flags were actually a bitfield, and they repurposed it because they ran out of bits. Need a space here
by andersa 3y ago
I wonder if this code was written in c++ or similar, the flags were actually a bitfield, and they repurposed it because they ran out of bits.
Need a space here? Oh, let's throw out this junk nobody used in 8 years and there we go...
- CraigRo 3y agoIt is very hard to change the overall size of the messages, and there's a lot of pressure to keep them short. So it could have been a bitfield or several similar things... e.g a value in a char field
- bluelightning2k 3y agoThis sounds particularly plausible with it being high frequency trading. Those presumably have optimisations few other applications have
- paradox242 3y agoThis is the first thing I thought of because otherwise this story doesn't make a lot of sense.