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

Only 10x performance increase desired for something that is 1000x slower than primitive?!.

Throwing a bit more hardware at this might be cheaper (considering the probability of having a currency calculation error).