IMO the current stable release is not suitable for softrealtime software such as algotrading. To no fault to C# in general, I find mono to still lack a bit in terms of stability compared with .Net. (That dreadful native side memory leak has hurt me quite a bit but is supposedly fixed in master)
I haven't looked at the latest 2.11 release or the master branch but seeing how the previous stable version was released a very long time ago, things might be different with those. You will also find mono C# GUI tools to be quite lacking compared to .Net's WPF (aside maybe from ASP.Net?). If you plan on making a GUI side on mono, you'll have to bite that bullet. Hopefully that next release comes out soon... On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Jonathan Shore <[email protected]> wrote: > mono / C# is being used at a number of algo shops. The question is, what > sort of frequency of trading and how sensitive are you to latency. > > In generally for any managed language you will want to be careful not to > create / destroy objects excessively (or perhaps at all). Having the GC > trigger will cause a delay in your processing by a few milliseconds +/-. > > A good way to handle objects that are created and destroyed at high > frequency is to use an object pool (something that I wish was built-in to > the language). > > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 4:30 AM, drilldown <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> hi there, >> >> can anyone suggest whether mono is adequate for algotrading? >> >> that is, using mono to compile c# code for algotrading server that runs on >> linux machine... >> >> if so, which linux OS would you recommend? >> >> cheers, >> >> ita >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/mono-for-algotrading-tp4650305.html >> Sent from the Mono - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> _______________________________________________ >> Mono-list maillist - [email protected] >> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > > > > > -- > Jonathan Shore > http://tr8dr.wordpress.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
