Comment by seanhunter

A big force multiplier in the old GS secdb model was simply the speed of the dev cycle vs speed of the code. As a strat you could push slang changes to pricing and risk literally in minutes with full testing, backout, object audit logging etc.

C++ changes went out in a 2 week release cycle so changes were still fast by most standards but much slower. But yeah we had 20m + lines of C++ code so it was extensively used.