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Date/Time: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 04:17:34 +0000



Post From: Native Support for Linux. Will This Ever Come?

[2024-11-01 18:31:11]
User753428 - Posts: 163
This was a fun read and I just want to say to the linux fanbois who basically don't know much:

Nasdaq exchange was running on WindowsNT kernel, Microsoft had one of the fastest network stacks because of these optimizations they made to make this work. It was one of the requirements Bill Gates came up to get Microsoft getting listed on the Nasdaq and Microsoft hired the best network programmers on the planet to optimize this part of Assembly and C code in their Windows kernel.

Linux network stack sucked massively for literally almost 3 decades, when you bought an HFT network card it came with it's own kernel to literally replace the whole TCP/IP stack of the linux kernel, it was that bad.

I run Arch btw.

what does this have to do with sierrachart running on linux though? nasdaq exchange running on the fastest network stack (microsoft) is cool, good for microsoft. but that has no relevance to sierrachart running slower on linux compared to windows, if the sc team decides to make a linux-native version some day.