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Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:47:44 -0400

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:53:45 +0100, Eugen Leitl said:
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/122989-1-5-billion-the-cost-of-cutting-london-toyko-latency-by-60ms

Lower latency is good...

The massive drop in latency is expected to supercharge algorithmic stock
market trading, where a difference of a few milliseconds can gain (or lose)
millions of dollars.

But it should be illegal to run a stock market that volatile.  This can't end well.

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