Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 22.03.2014 06:58, schrieb deadalnix:
> On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 01:24:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 3/21/2014 5:39 PM, bearophile wrote:
>>> That code must always be hard-real time. So a GC is allowed only
>>> during startup
>>> time (unless it's a quite special GC), hidden heap allocations are
>>> forbidden,
>>> data access patterns need to be carefully chosen, you even have to
>>> use most of
>>> the hot part of the stack, etc.
>>
>> These are all very doable in D, and I've written apps that do so. The
>> "fear of GC" is completely overblown.
>>
>
> Fear of GC is overblown. Fear of D's GC isn't.

Yes, as there are a few  high performance trading systems done with 
JVM/.NET languages.

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Paulo