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Michael,

thank you for commenting. I have two questions (inline below).

Best,
Rolf

> I agree. FAST is too complex and getting worse. Having a PMAP
> where a 1 bit signifies a field and a 0 signifies the absence
> of a field is how it should be. It makes the decoder very very
> simple to code and the implementation very fast as well.

Do you mean "don't add pmap placement" (a proposed 1.2 feature), or is this 
about an existing feature eg. the 1-2 bit pmap entries for decimal fields?

> ARCA, OPRA, and other exchanges implement this and the decoders
> are a few hundred lines. Implementing CME is just a pain in the
> arse. Oh goody, lets use every possible feature there is and
> blow the consequences.

Could you point out which FAST features in the CME feed that caused extra pain 
for you?

Are you using fastapi-1.0 or some other codec library?


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