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C++ or Java: Which is Faster for High Frequency Trading?

OverviewThere are conflicting views as to what is the best solution for high frequency trading. Part of the problem is that what is high frequency trading...

0 replies - 6897 views - 10/22/12 by Peter Lawrey in Articles

Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good Code?

We need to understand what happens to code over time and why, and what a healthy, long-lived code base looks like. What architectural decisions have the...

1 replies - 9844 views - 10/15/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

LLJS: Low-Level Javascript - A C-Like Typed Dialect of Javascript

LLJS is a typed dialect of JavaScript that offers a C-like type system with manual memory management. It compiles to JavaScript and lets you write...

0 replies - 4112 views - 10/12/12 by Hirvesh Munogee in Articles

Concurrency

My first chance to do serious concurrent programming was using C++ on Windows in the 90s, on NT, where async programming was done with IOCompletionPorts....

1 replies - 3801 views - 09/19/12 by Rob Williams in Articles

Programming: Initially a Female Profession

In the 1940s, the first computer programmers were all women. That only changed later. Quoting “Researcher reveals how ‘Computer Geeks’ replaced...

0 replies - 3549 views - 07/15/12 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles

5 Signs You Should Hire a Programmer on the Spot

Bringing a programmer in for an interview and a coding test can lead to some interesting experiences, both for the interviewer and the interviewee. Most...

8 replies - 22794 views - 05/02/12 by Brian Kelly in Articles

Should the CIO Know How to Code?

Read this Computerworld posting: Should the CIO know how to code? The answer is "Yes." The examples of "well-functioning non-technical...

2 replies - 9218 views - 05/02/12 by Steven Lott in Articles

DRAKON Editor 1.9 with support for Java and C#

DRAKON Editor 1.9 is out. A technology from the space program is now available to Java and C# developers.DRAKON is a visual algorithmic language developed...

0 replies - 2561 views - 03/06/12 by Stepan Mitkin in Announcements

Traditional Programming Language Job Trends: February 2012

Once again, it is time for the job trends for traditional programming languages. Just like the most recent trends updates, we are only looking at Java,...

1 replies - 7638 views - 02/20/12 by Robert Diana in Articles

Wade not in unknown waters (C++) - Part 1

We decided to write several small posts on how C/C++ programmers play with fire without knowing it. The first post will be devoted to an attempt to explicitly...

2 replies - 4220 views - 01/31/12 by Andrey Karpov in Articles

DZone Top Articles of 2011: How to get C like performance in Java

This article was selected as one of DZone's most popular, high-quality posts of 2011.  It is now republished as part of a series that will revisit the top...

11 replies - 18537 views - 01/04/12 by Peter Lawrey in Articles

Daily Dose: The W3C Creates Two New Platforms For Specification Development

The W3C created two new platforms for developing specifications, with the intent of getting more input from individuals and organizations. The two platforms...

0 replies - 26867 views - 08/17/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

I like PHP

There, I said it. I know it’s fashionable to mock PHP for its antiquated syntax and semantic quirks, but I just like it. Here is why.   PHP is like...

7 replies - 6530 views - 08/11/11 by Cedric Beust in News

C++ or Java, which is faster for high frequency trading?

There are conflicting views as to what is the best solution for high frequency trading. Part of the problem is that what is high frequency trading varies...

7 replies - 5874 views - 08/03/11 by Peter Lawrey in Articles

Moving readVInt to C

By far the hottest spot in Lucene during searching is the method (DataInput.readVInt) that decodes Lucene's variable-length integer representation (vInt). ...

1 replies - 6729 views - 06/29/11 by Michael Mccandless in News