On 2015-11-18, at 10:08, Tom Marchant wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:00:21 -0700, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> one institution overcame a disadvantage
>> by introducing a wire(!) delay line to delay its competitor's transactions
>> by a few milliseconds.
>
> That would be a really long piece of wire.
>
I stand corrected; I checked; it was 350 µsec. That one's prfoit may depend on
that edge is ample reason for the OP to desire to shave a few instructions off
time display conversion.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-30/high-frequency-traders-ripping-off-investors-michael-lewis-says
-- gil
