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		dralley on Nov 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Java is better than C++ for high speed trading sys... If that's your memory management strategy, then what do you actually gain by using Java? May as well just use C and never free your memory. Lots of memory management issues go away if you never free memory.

peter_lawrey on Nov 30, 2020 [–]

Not all your services/code needs to have the lowest latencies so you can have a team which just needs to be able to translate the business requirements and a couple of people to optimise the critical code.

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