What to do with Java BigDecimal performance?

Question

I write currency trading applications for living, so I have to work with monetary values (it\'s a shame that Java still doesn\'t have decimal float type and has nothing to s

Answer 1

Most double operations give you more than enough precision. You can represent $10 trillion with cent accuracy with double which may be more than enough for you.

In all the trading systems I have worked on (four different banks), they have used double with appropriate rounding. I don't see any reason to be using BigDecimal.