Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

[Daniel Davidson]

On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 17:30:45 UTC, TJB wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 16:35:07 UTC, Brian Rogoff wrote:
>
>> This is a very interesting thread that you started. Could you 
>> flesh it out more with some example C++ that you'd like 
>> compared to D? I'm sure quite a few people would assist with a 
>> translation.
>
> Well, right away people jumped to high-frequency trading. 
> Although that may be the most visible area in computational 
> finance - it's not the only one. There are areas where 
> performance is crucial, but where trading is done at a lower 
> frequency (where latency is not the main issue).
>

I apologize for that. HFT has been a driver of a lot of business 
and attention. Of course you are right about areas with less 
latency sensitivity and D is attractive there. Even in latency 
sensitive efforts I think could be D attractive for new efforts 
providing some of the memory management efforts continue to 
evolve. My main point was selling it would be tough.

Thanks
Dan