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.
Yep, my typo, meant low microsecond.
