Shared Memory Tickerplant Log Files

I posted recently about making kdb+ go faster . I forgot to mention shunning TCP and using shared memory as the transport layer. This has been around for ages and is the technology which underpins low-latency approaches like Pete Lawrey’s Chronicle Queue . You have choices about whether to make the file durable or in-memory only. We could simply use a shared library to write from kdb to such a…