Quant Interview Practice Questions

High-frequency trading (HFT) firms prioritize minimizing latency in order execution. You are designing a trading system and must choose between using a CPU-based architecture or an FPGA-based architecture for order processing. Consider the following factors: Deterministic Latency: The consistency of processing time is crucial. Operating System Overhead: CPUs require operating systems that introduce jitter and context switching. Parallelism: The ability to execute tasks concurrently.