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Big decimals are widely available and don’t require any expertise but avoid many of the footguns of implied decimal integers.
by lxgr 4mo ago
Big decimals are widely available and don’t require any expertise but avoid many of the footguns of implied decimal integers.
- Maxatar 4mo agoImagine advising someone who explicitly said they work in HFT to use big decimals.
- m00x 4mo agoBigDecimal should be used by almost everyone except for HFT since they're really slow.
- DetroitThrow 4mo agoWhen performance isn't a concern, I largely agree! Not every financial system can use big decimal as their base, though, too. And HFT isn't the only place in the financial sector where this performance concern might pop up.