On Friday, 18 December 2015 at 20:40:48 UTC, Barry L. wrote:
Summary - modern financial trading apps use multi-core machines and shared memory via memory mapped files, and multi-core boxes to achieve nanosecond latency.
1 nanosecond => 3 clock cycles. A single read from RAM is > 100 cycles.
In that ballpark you have to use silicone/FPGA.
