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

Is JNI a possibility? You may be able to recover some speed and potentially leverage existing native fixed point libraries (maybe even some SSE* goodness too)

Perhaps http://gmplib.org/