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I always thought it sounded super cool but it just doesn't exist in the problem spaces I work in. Like kdb+ was specifically designed to be run on bare metal without a full OS in the way of things going fast, and in quant environments where you're trying to shave off nanoseconds on the computations because your company's gone and invested in a dedicated fibre line to trading servers.

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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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