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Ravi, thank you for your comments. Would it be possible for you to share some thoughts regarding the OPRA impl? What did you do to efficiently support the non-std aspects of OPRA? Best, Rolf > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
