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On 15 September 2011 09:41, Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I wonder if synchronising it to a clock tick rather than just piling >> trades in would be better. > > NTP is good. Direct reference to GPS is better (but at the whim of the US > govt.) > > However these people are delaing in sub millisecond transactions - verging > on the microsecond level now... Or at least their computers are. I mean that instead of it being chaos, run it in turns, or bounds as some games apparently do. The turns could be quite short - 1 second for instance, or 100ms or whatever. -- Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq