On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 14:30:00 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 14:17 +0000, Daniel Davidson wrote:
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Performance engineers who can eek out that 10% on existing
systems do very well. The same engineers who can build it
entirely do much better.
Good C++ programmers appear to be able to get $350k to $400k in
NY.
Of course the effect of that good programmers can be a profit
increase
measures in millions.
I guess D should be able to do things just as fast as C++, at
least
using LDC or GDC. My little informal microbenchmarks indicate
that this
is the case, but for now this is anecdotal evidence not
statistically
significant. Sadly for a while D programmers won't be able to
achieve
the same remuneration as the top C++ programmers exactly
because there
is little demand/supply pressure.
HFT is very latency sensitive. D stop the world GC is a no go.
D needs a better GC to be viable in these markets.
