CppCon 2017: Carl Cook “When a Microsecond Is an Eternity: High Performance Trading Systems in C++”

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Hard-won, specific performance-engineering lessons from an extreme domain, with measured examples.

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Carl Cook (Optiver) explains how high-frequency trading systems in C++ achieve low and predictable latency: warming caches, avoiding allocation, branch handling and measurement.

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