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There's only a couple things made clear:
1. It replaces a Windows system while using Linux
2. It's faster than the old system, at least while they tested it

The article says very little about implementation details: then again, most readers wouldn't be remotely qualified to understand that.

This doesn't really speak either way to Windows inferior performance/reliability or Linux's superior performance/reliability as it does for the implementation of the two trading systems.

Until they measure while controlling for the system-dependent variables, it means... little. And, of course: chances are the system hasn't had all the same conditions thrown at it that the old system has during its existence: who is to say with the limited amount of real-world testing that it will be more reliable? That remains to be proven with reality. For all we know, there's some obscure Linux kernel bug that'll be hit, that will take it down unexpectedly: I've seen it happen in past versions of the kernel with massive databases pounding the system.

I'll come back to this if someone can post a followup that documents what all the variables are, and if the Linux system uses the same logic as the Windows system, or if it is a completely different implementation/design written by different people, but until then, this is merely a PR fluff piece.

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Maybe (not sure about BSD though; don't scale well), but bring back Windows, and everything grinds to a halt again. LOL

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