ic VS onload

Internet Computer blockchain (ICP) — a general-purpose blockchain system developed by the DFINITY Foundation (written in Rust);

Yes, non-rust dependencies can be a pain. We addressed this issue in three ways: 1. Sometimes, it just works™ if the crate has a copy of the C code and uses the cc crate to compile it. It's usually slow to compile C in a build script, but it works. 2. Sometimes, we write a custom BUILD script for direct dependencies and link external libraries by hand. Example: lmdb and lmdb-sys. 3. If all of the above is not an option or is too much work, we add a native library to the Docker container that runs our builds.

One thing that sticks out to me is that, while their code is open source, it has a restrictive license, the Apache License: https://github.com/dfinity/ic/blob/master/LICENSE - most open source projects opt for the MIT License.

Sources please? https://github.com/dfinity/ic/pulse talks of only ~100 commits (IC only, not including the other repos)

https://github.com/dfinity/ic/graphs/contributors You can see there are many contributors, whose own GitHub profiles show contributions to OTHER projects. For example, just clicking on one contributor, John Wiegley (Principal Engineer at DFINITY), you will see a long history of open source contributions: https://github.com/jwiegley

You can see the code here: https://github.com/dfinity/ic

Other than that, I heard there's some 3rd party network libraries that are generally considered lower latency, one of them I believe either redhat uses for one of their systems, or it is sponsored by them: https://github.com/Xilinx-CNS/onload

I mean really you want to be doing some kind of (kernel network bypass with some sort of system programming language like C++ for low latency trading systems like this. Arb trading is usually not worth it unless you have a ton of expertise or some crazy mathematical edge that can offset. Plus you need to be guaranteed to execute the trade you ask for which most average joes don't have.

How about the x2 series from Xilinx?

It comes from solarflare who have a long pedigree of low-latency smartnics. They used to supply Cloudflare, and also supply like 50% of fintechs/financial markets.

You can also just use openonload to accelerate your programs. In this case just doing straight linux socket programming, which can be accelerated without dpdk. Or just use the generic linux driver if necessary.

https://github.com/Xilinx-CNS/onload

Ahki SingHania - Akhi is the engineering manager for the Execution team. He has a background in operating systems and networking. Before working on the Internet Computer, he worked on OpenOnload and Barrelfish.

https://github.com/Xilinx-CNS/onload any good?

It used to be openonload.org which seems to redirect to https://github.com/Xilinx-CNS/onload for the source to onload.