How is Seer so fast?
This is a complex question, and there is no simple answer. From a project perspective, performance was one of the key requirements for the Seer toolset and this requirement has filtered down through all aspects of Seer’s design. Perhaps, the simple answer is that the of core of Seer has been written in ANSI C with all internal structures being C based. This as you would expect has a significant impact on performance. The Perl programming language it’s self is no slouch, with a popular Perl moral being: “You can sometimes write faster code in C, but you can always write code faster in Perl. Because you can use each from the other, combine them as you wish.” As almost all of the hundreds of functions that Seer provides through the Perl environment are written in C, you get the benefit of a highly optimized core for performance but with a simple and flexible scripting environment to build trading systems. • Is Seer available on Linux? Seer is not currently available on Linux for private u
