CTO of an HFT firm here. My opinion: repo (and probably author’s comments) are LLM-generated. That said, many questions and techniques touched upon are real. So even though I certainly would not use any of these verbatim (as I wouldn’t do with any other LLM code), as a list of pointers for someone relatively new to the field this is actually pretty useful.
Saves you a “generate low-latency trading system” prompt anyway.
It does not. If this was the case, round trip wire to wire latency below 1.0-1.2 microseconds in software would’ve been impossible. But it clearly is possible - see benchmarks by Solarflare, Exablaze, and others.
They were most definitely IFR. Not because of the weather but because IFR is required above certain altitude 18,000 ft in the U.S. and typically lower in Europe (depends on a country). Jets including small private jets are almost always on IFR. Airliners with passengers - always.