Sadly, you won’t find numbers on latency on the vendor’s battle cards—so we measured it ourselves to see the performance differences among some popular services. But first, let’s discuss latency. It’s ...

In the fast-paced world of high-frequency trading (HFT), every microsecond counts. With trades executed in fractions of a second, even minor improvements in processing speed can translate into ...

The time between initiating a request for a character in memory until it is retrieved. If the data are not in the cache, it takes longer to obtain them. See cache and latency. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...