Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

[deadalnix]

On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 14:30:00 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 14:17 +0000, Daniel Davidson wrote:
> […]
>> Performance engineers who can eek out that 10% on existing 
>> systems do very well. The same engineers who can build it 
>> entirely do much better.
>
> Good C++ programmers appear to be able to get $350k to $400k in 
> NY.
>
> Of course the effect of that good programmers can be a profit 
> increase
> measures in millions.
>
> I guess D should be able to do things just as fast as C++, at 
> least
> using LDC or GDC. My little informal microbenchmarks indicate 
> that this
> is the case, but for now this is anecdotal evidence not 
> statistically
> significant. Sadly for a while D programmers won't be able to 
> achieve
> the same remuneration as the top C++ programmers exactly 
> because there
> is little demand/supply pressure.

HFT is very latency sensitive. D stop the world GC is a no go.

D needs a better GC to be viable in these markets.