Thread Local Volume Accumulator - Quant Developer Interview Question
Difficulty: Easy
Category: concurrency
Asked at: Jump Trading, Tower Research, Citadel Securities, Optiver, HRT
Topics: concurrency, c++17, thread_local
Problem Description
Aggregating trade volumes from multiple execution streams requires low-latency synchronization to prevent performance bottlenecks caused by lock contention. Thread Local Storage (TLS) provides a mechanism to maintain state unique to each thread, allowing for lock-free accumulation of data in concurrent environments. This pattern is essential for maximizing throughput in multi-threaded financial applications where global locking is prohibitively expensive.
Task
Implement the VolumeAccumulator cl
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