News!!

12-15-08 06:16 PM

Now on update on progress for releasing.

Over the weekend I updated all the automated regression testing.

Also, I added in streaming technology for loading tick data. That way, memory will never be a limitation and strategies start running instantly.

So imagine you want to run a test on 10 symbols with 100 million ticks each. Without streaming, it could take several minutes just to read all those gigabytes from disk into memory.

With streaming, the test runs instantly.

The main reason I added this right now before release was to speed up the automated regressions tests. That way, if you want to make changes to the code, you can run the tests to make sure you don't break anything.

The tests got out-of-date because they took so long to run each time. That was because they actually loaded enough tick data to test all the bar intervals, the statistics, strategies, some of the indicators, etc.

Now the whole thing takes mere seconds to run due to the streaming technology. That makes is easier to run the test after every change to the software.

Sincerely, Wayne