nicholassm83

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   by nicholassm83 2y ago

   Here's a high level description in TLA+: https://github.com/nicholassm/disruptor-rs/blob/main/verific... (Disclaimer: I wrote it.) There's also a spec for a Multi Producer Multi Consumer (MPMC)
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   by nicholassm83 2y ago

   And here's a version in Rust: https://crates.io/crates/disruptor (Disclaimer: I wrote it.)
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   by nicholassm83 2y ago

   I'm trying to be polite. :-) And there is a lot of great C++ code and developers out there - especially in the e-trading/HFT space.
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   by nicholassm83 2y ago

   I agree. The Rust implementation even needs to use a few unsafe blocks (to work with UnsafeCells internally) but is mostly safe code. Other than that you can achieve the same in C++. But I think the real benefit is that you can write the re
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   by nicholassm83 2y ago

   I would love to give you a good answer but I've been working on low latency trading systems for a decade so I have never used async/actors/fibers/etc. I would think it implies a rewrite as async is fundamentally baked in
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   by nicholassm83 2y ago

   I agree, the disruptor is more about low latency. And the cost is very high: a 100% utilized core. This is a great trade-off if you can make money by being faster such as in e-trading.
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   Disruptor-rs: better latency and throughput than crossbeam(github.com)

   204 points by nicholassm83 2y ago|35 comments
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   Rust - Low Latency Alternative to Crossbeam for Trading Applications(crates.io)

   2 points by nicholassm83 2y ago|0 comments