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That's actually not true at all. No one who cares about nanoseconds is using kdb+ for a production trading system.

It's primarily used for trading research and surveillance, not live trading. And I've never heard of anyone running it without an OS.




> And I've never heard of anyone running it without an OS.

kOS is in development though current status is unknown.

(https://gist.github.com/chrispsn/da00835bb122c42f429a084df83...)


I think that got abandoned ages ago.


""Arthur succeeded in getting it to run, but eventually got drowned in device drivers."

heh


> No one who cares about nanoseconds is using kdb+ for a production trading system.

For those curious, what they're actually using is FPGAs and custom silicon.


Super interesting thanks for the tidbit




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