/FullFIX

A library for parsing FIX (Financial Information eXchange) protocol messages.

Primary LanguageCBSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" LicenseBSD-3-Clause

FullFIX

Platform: Linux
Licence: BSD 3-clause
Status: Beta release

FullFIX is a library for parsing Financial Information eXchange (FIX) messages. The main goal of the project is to produce the fastest software solution for FIX protocol. The library is written entirely in C for better portability. The parser depends on libc only and it does not impose any I/O or threading model. Unlike some other well known solutions, in this parser the FIX specification gets converted to efficient C code at compile time to achieve the best performance.

Supported FIX protocol versions: up to and including version 4.4.

Performance

The numbers below have been achieved on Intel Core i5-8500T 2.10GHz processor. On modern production hardware the results will probably be better.

Compiler: gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) 7.3.0

OS: Linux Mint 19 64bit

FIX message type FIX specification Validation Average time to parse one message
NewOrderSingle('D') Hand-coded spec. for this message only No 0.152 µs/msg
NewOrderSingle('D') Hand-coded spec. for this message only Yes 0.262 µs/msg
NewOrderSingle('D') Compiled full spec. for FIX.4.4 Yes 0.324 µs/msg
MarketDataIncrementalRefresh('X') Hand-coded spec. for this message only Yes 0.487 µs/msg
MarketDataIncrementalRefresh('X') Compiled full spec. for FIX.4.4 Yes 0.611 µs/msg

For more details see doc/ directory of the project.