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Re:Bryan Cantrill interviews Arthur Whitney (2009) by ncmncm on Monday December 02, 2019 @03:39AM (#21680845)
Some people call it automated stealing. Taxed, it would collapse.

Usage of APL-related languages in finance, KDB in particular, is always exaggerated. Where it is used, it is amazingly slow.

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Re:Bryan Cantrill interviews Arthur Whitney (2009) by zerozerocool on Saturday December 07, 2019 @11:12PM (#21734286)
It wouldn't be a hacker news kdb thread without exaggerated claims about kdb's exaggerated performance.

When you say KDB is "amazingly slow" in real life, you're either talking about your own attempt at KDB, or make-believe KDB.

Expensive, terse, and 'amazingly slow' software would not be exist, let alone be competitive.

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