Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off stock trades

Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by varshithr on Friday August 02, 2019 @07:52AM (#20592288)

Forgive me for asking but what does GP here stand for?

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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by umanwizard on Friday August 02, 2019 @08:01AM (#20592336)

Grandparent comment, i.e., two links up in the comment tree.

(It's a common term on internet forums -- I learned it from Slashdot years ago)

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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by varshithr on Friday August 02, 2019 @08:48AM (#20592541)

Thank you very much. I thought of searching the web but GP is too generic a term.

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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by dcsan on Friday August 02, 2019 @08:05AM (#20592352)

GP grand parent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8363625

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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by toofy on Friday August 02, 2019 @08:04AM (#20592349)

GrandParent comment.

The comment directly above is the parent, and the comment above the parent is the grandparent—in this case the GP they’re referring to was 1e-9’s comment.

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