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SIMD operations for high-performance numeric computations SIMD-accelerated operations for performance-critical market data processing
This module provides safe, portable SIMD implementations optimized for high-frequency trading applications where microsecond latency determines profitability.
§HFT Performance Rationale
§Market Data Processing Requirements
In HFT systems, market data processing must complete within strict latency budgets:
- Level 2 updates: Process 1000+ price level changes per second
- Trade stream analysis: Real-time min/max calculations for market monitoring
- Statistical calculations: Rolling statistics over large datasets
- Order book aggregation: Vectorized price/volume summations
§SIMD Performance Benefits
- 4x theoretical speedup: Process 4 f64 values simultaneously with f64x4 vectors
- 2-3x real-world gains: After accounting for memory and branching overhead
- Cache efficiency: Vectorized operations maximize memory bandwidth utilization
- Power efficiency: SIMD instructions provide better performance per watt
§Safe SIMD Architecture
§Portable SIMD with wide Crate
- Cross-platform compatibility: Works on x86_64, ARM, and other architectures
- Safe abstractions: Zero unsafe code blocks, guaranteed memory safety
- NaN handling: Proper IEEE 754 compliance with NaN propagation
- Compiler optimization: Generates optimal SIMD instructions per target
§Thread-Local Buffer Management
thread_local! {
static SIMD_BUFFER: RefCell<VecSimd<f64x4>> = /* ... */;
}- Zero allocation: Reuses buffers to eliminate malloc/free overhead
- Thread safety: Each thread has its own buffer pool
- Growth strategy: 1.5x expansion factor reduces reallocation frequency
- Memory efficiency: Buffers never shrink to maintain performance
§High-Performance Operations
§Vectorized Min/Max
- NaN-safe operations: Proper handling of invalid market data
- Chunk processing: Processes 4 elements per SIMD instruction
- Remainder handling: Efficiently processes non-multiple-of-4 arrays
- Early termination: Returns immediately for empty or single-element arrays
§Memory Access Patterns
- Sequential access: Optimized for CPU prefetcher
- Aligned loads: When possible, uses aligned memory access
- Cache-friendly: Minimizes cache line splits
- Bandwidth optimization: Vectorized loads maximize memory throughput
§Integration with Market Data
§Real-Time Analytics
// Price range analysis
let min_price = SimdOps::min_f64(&tick_prices);
let max_price = SimdOps::max_f64(&tick_prices);
let price_range = max_price - min_price;§Order Book Processing
// Volume-weighted calculations
let total_bid_volume = SimdOps::sum_f64(&bid_volumes);
let avg_ask_price = SimdOps::mean_f64(&ask_prices);§Performance Characteristics
§Latency Metrics
- min/max operations: 50-200ns for arrays of 100-1000 elements
- Sum operations: 20-100ns depending on array size
- Buffer allocation: 0ns in steady state (pre-allocated)
- Cache miss penalty: ~100ns when data not in L3 cache
§Throughput Optimization
- Memory bandwidth: Utilizes full SIMD memory bandwidth
- CPU utilization: Keeps vector execution units busy
- Instruction-level parallelism: Multiple SIMD operations in parallel
§Thread Safety & Concurrency
§Thread-Local Design
- Lock-free operation: No synchronization overhead
- CPU cache affinity: Buffers stay warm in thread-local cache
- Scalability: Performance scales linearly with CPU cores
§Memory Safety
- Bounds checking: Debug builds include bounds checks
- Overflow protection: Guards against buffer overflow
- Reference lifetime: Proper Rust lifetime management
Structs§
- SimdOps
- SIMD-accelerated operations optimized for HFT market data processing