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itsthecourieryesterday at 11:50 PM1 replyview on HN

so let me get this straight Skippy, you're saying you got better performance and reliability than the LMAX disruptor with Multicast that runs inside many big exchanges?

I have a really hard time believing something decentralized will surpass the the physical limitations of speed of light and low level assembler from C++ optimizations without any GC

also the fact that hyperliquid sequencing of orders is opaque and not opensource, and there is indeed latency in the consensus, I cannot believe yet there are p99 stability in completed transactions


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skippyboxedherotoday at 11:41 AM

why do you think LMAX disruptor runs inside many big exchanges? have you read some blogs online? LMAX disruptor does not run at "many big exchanges".

Disruptor is written in Java. LMAX itself is a tiny exchange that largely deals with institutions so doesn't have the same message volume as retail facing.

What language do you think validators run? So much stuff that makes absolutely no sense..

Order sequencing is not opaque, that is one of the primary benefits of DEX that aren't decentralized. SOL has issues with sequencing but there are attempts to fix this (Jane Street is one of the places working on this). This is a point that I made above about block space, and isn't relevant for Hyperliquid.