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LSE Breaks World Record In Trade Speed With Linux
LingNoi writes with this excerpt from ComputerWorld UK: "The London Stock Exchange has said its new Linux-based system is delivering world record networking speed, with 126 microsecond trading times. The news comes ahead a major Linux-based switchover in twelve days, during which the open source system will replace Microsoft .Net technology on the group's main stock exchange. The LSE had long been criticised on speed and reliability, grappling with trading speeds of several hundred microseconds. The 126 microsecond speed is 'twice as fast' as its main international competitors, the London Stock Exchange said. BATS Europe and Chi-X, two dedicated electronic rivals to the LSE, are reported to have an average latency of 250 and 175 microseconds respectively. Neither company immediately provided details. But many of the LSE's older and more traditional rivals offer speeds of around 300 to 400 microseconds. Nevertheless, Linux is now standard in many exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange."
Windows games: Plentiful and well developed. Mac games: Barely existent. Linux games: Lowest latency.
Your post was fast... are you using Linux?
Communist Linux - bringing speed and efficiency to the dregs of capitalism.
The idiots in charge of the stock markets believe that, since Linux doesn't crash, their stock markets won't either.
1. Create a super fast OS that take over the world's stock trading ...
2. Ruin the economy so that no one can afford to buy proprietary product any more
3.
4. Linux on every desktop!!!
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't
The idiots in charge of the stock markets believe that, since Linux doesn't crash, their stock markets won't either.
And if Linux crashes, Linus will give you a full refund.
Bender runs Linux? Cool.
It is what it is.
...and more to do with badly designed and implemented software.
So we are back to Linux vs. Windows, huh? ;)
no button, it's all CLI, dweeb.
The stock market used to be full of bears & bulls. Now it has penguins too :)
while (true != false) process_more_stupid_code();
and if windows crashes, i hear steve gives you a sexy massage.
This is a joke. I am joking. Joke joke joke.
As for others actions indirectly, adversely affecting you? That's life. Get used to it because it is never going to change. We're not entitled or promised a safety net and anyone trying to give us one wants our freedom as the price. A bit here and another bit there; eventually it's gone.
Yeah, it always starts with regulating traffic and ends with concentration camps. There is absolutely nothing in between but one giant slippery slope.
What you say in jest, I say in seriousness. Fortunately it usually happens over many lifetimes.
Violence is like duct tape. If it doesn't solve the problem, you didn't use enough.
With a chair.
The Grey Goo disaster happened 3 billion years ago. This rock is covered in self replicating machines!