Re: [Quickfix-developers] Subscribe/Publish logic

[Caleb E. <cal...@gm...>]

On 1/15/07, Matt Carlucci <MJC...@ms...> wrote:

> Thank you Carl. I'm starting to see some light. One thing I cam across was

Its Caleb.  But you're welcome :)

> the FAST Protocol. I read the spec and scanned several other docs.  It
> appears that Fast would resolve any possible latency issues when sending
> large amounts of messages.

Yes, FAST is a much more optimal encoding for things like market data.
 That said, a simple fixed-field-width text message is also pretty
optimal and used for most major exchange feeds at the present time.

> Does QuickFix offer the Fast Encoding/Decoding methods or is there any
> immediatae plans to implement it?

No, QuickFIX doesn't support FAST, but there is a very nice reference
implementation written in C available on the FIX Protocol web site:

    http://www.fixprotocol.org/fast/

-- 
Caleb Epstein