Re:Java is better than C++ for high speed trading systems
by nickpeterson on Thursday November 26, 2020 @08:38AM
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I don’t think that is too far off the mark. Given 8 more decades of progress we might even be able to produce reliable code. Webpages will be 100GB of JavaScript though
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Re:Java is better than C++ for high speed trading systems
by MaxBarraclough on Thursday November 26, 2020 @09:15AM
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> Given 8 more decades of progress we might even be able to produce reliable code
As the risk of nitpicking, we already can produce reliable code, but as piaste's comment states, it's rare to make the necessary investment.
Avionics software and medical systems software is held to a very high standard, at great expense, but the average website or desktop application is not.
> Webpages will be 100GB of JavaScript though
I agree that the problem of bloat is likely to continue to worsen in the web, but that's just the web. Other sectors, like high-performance game engines, will continue to compete on efficiency.
Re:Java is better than C++ for high speed trading systems
by m_mueller on Thursday November 26, 2020 @08:55AM
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I think reliability is, after a certain point, inverse proportional to the amount of code involved. So I'd disagree that we'll have even larger webpages then - the same way that in modern construction, heavy and thick stone & brick pillars have been replaced with comparatively light and strong steel-reinforced concrete. Maybe the equivalent would be just enough strongly typed code running on top of just enough, well tested & secure WASM?