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Developing High-Frequency Trading Systems

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803242811
Pages 320 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (3):
Sebastien Donadio Sebastien Donadio
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Sourav Ghosh Sourav Ghosh
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Romain Rossier Romain Rossier
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface Part 1: Trading Strategies, Trading Systems, and Exchanges
Chapter 1: Fundamentals of a High-Frequency Trading System Chapter 2: The Critical Components of a Trading System Chapter 3: Understanding the Trading Exchange Dynamics Part 2: How to Architect a High-Frequency Trading System
Chapter 4: HFT System Foundations – From Hardware to OS Chapter 5: Networking in Motion Chapter 6: HFT Optimization – Architecture and Operating System Chapter 7: HFT Optimization – Logging, Performance, and Networking Part 3: Implementation of a High-Frequency Trading System
Chapter 8: C++ – The Quest for Microsecond Latency Chapter 9: Java and JVM for Low-Latency Systems Chapter 10: Python – Interpreted but Open to High Performance Chapter 11: High-Frequency FPGA and Crypto Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding context switches

A context switch in computer science is the operation or set of tasks by which all the states associated with a running process or thread is saved and the state associated with a different process or thread to be run next is restored so that it can resume where the execution left off. The principle of context switching is the cornerstone on which modern Operating Systems' (OSs') support for multitasking is based, and which gives the illusion of running a lot more processes than the number of CPU cores available in the hardware.

Types of context switches

Context switches can be grouped into different types depending on which aspect of the context switching process we look at. We will briefly discuss them as follows.

Hardware or software context switches

Context switches can be performed in hardware or software. In hardware context switching, special hardware features such as Task State Segments (TSSs) can be used to save the register...

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