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Another HN user described this a long time ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828804 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828804

• madaxe 14y ago
  Yup. It's all about parsing FIX faster than the next dude.
  • niggler 14y ago
    In some asset classes (e.g. equities) the exchanges and dealers have built their own proprietary protocols to reduce the excess bytes.
  • pbhjpbhj 14y ago
    No it's about providing market liquidity in order to optimise the efficiency of production. /sarcasm
  • jrockway 14y ago
    Parsing FIX correctly faster than the next dude. I've seen some fast FIX parsers. I've seen few that actually produce correct results :)