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

You might want to move to fixed point math. Just searching for some libraries right now. on sourceforge fixed-point I haven't looked at this in depth yet. beartonics

Did you test with org.jscience.economics.money? since that has assured accuracy. The fixed point will only be as accurate as the # of bits assigned to each piece, but is fast.