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We have implemented the full FAST specification 1.1 in 4 weeks. We wrote decoder and xml parser in C. The specification is short and crisp. The examples are very useful and we implemented them as unit tests. We are using the decoder for several feeds including OPRA. > What can I say except yes - it it clearly way too complicated. Given it > ignores one bit which is potenitally 20% of capacity I can't even see > that it is ultra compact. But anyway we have gone from a hugley verbose > but easy to use format to a very compressed and ultra difficult format. > I think best to junk it and start again! At the very least give up on > new versions until the documents are perfect and the sample application > are usable. The only ones who are going to profit from all of this is > the software vendors selling fast fix convertors. But sending data > should not be that difficult. Anyone who says this stuff is not > difficult tell me how many lines of code for a complete project... I am > still writing and looks like months of work... [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:[email protected]] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/FIX-Protocol?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
