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Re:Jane Street and the OCaml Compiler (2018) [video] by gbronner on Thursday March 26, 2020 @07:10PM (#22698932)
Preallocate all of the memory on the box, and control GC runs.

There's an entire library of tricks for ensuring that GC pauses don't affect trading, but the biggest one is to use userspace allocated memory pools.

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