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What OS does quant use most frequently?

Yaofang_Xu

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I wonder when you work in a bank or fund, what kind of OS do you use, Windows, Linux, or Mac?

I see many guys in IT company use Linux to develop something. While for a quant, what is the advantage if you are using Window or something else?
 
Yaofang_Xu said:
I wonder when you work in a bank or fund, what kind of OS do you use, Windows, Linux, or Mac?

I see many guys in IT company use Linux to develop something. While for a quant, what is the advantage if you are using Window or something else?
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Excel?
 
Take this as a grain of salt since I'm still trying to get into an MFE program.

But the OS is not as important as the compiler and language and applications used.

Usually it's about getting an app or compiler to run code that is efficient and does the job and provides security.

What language it's written in matters less. If C++ fits the bill then that's what's used.

So mabye for example look at HFT and see that speed is of utmost importance so a language and OS allowing you to maximize instruction per cycle will yield theoretical fastest output.
 
Hark said:
Take this as a grain of salt since I'm still trying to get into an MFE program.

But the OS is not as important as the compiler and language and applications used.

Usually it's about getting an app or compiler to run code that is efficient and does the job and provides security.

What language it's written in matters less. If C++ fits the bill then that's what's used.

So mabye for example look at HFT and see that speed is of utmost importance so a language and OS allowing you to maximize instruction per cycle will yield theoretical fastest output.
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Hi, I am also fighting for MFE.

I agree with you. We should use the right tool to achieve our goal. I am working on linux now. I use it for a while but still a green hand. I was suggested that in the world of linux, there are many free libraries, which is convenient when you are coding. I don't know whether the same thing happens in FE?
 
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