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Date/Time: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:34:25 +0000
Post From: CPU usage for multi-core processor
| [2016-01-29 19:05:26] |
| User791263 - Posts: 151 |
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Exellent Info! Good news for future S.C. Power Users. Thanks S.C.- you guys are Great. Our discussion had homed in on Graphics/chart drawing.re-drawing as likely resource hogs. For Scalpers-Fast traders, much of chart period setting (days) is wasted calcs on 1/2 of charts, because shortest-term charts seldom look back over an hour (many about 30 minutes. Except for long moving averages, such short-term (Tick, Second,1 min charts) could use an option to "calculate to longest study bars only", or as with "Colored Background" (improved), a "bars to calculate" setting could save resources. That might reduce recalc-redraw by 5 or more times. (An SC programmer might add a percentage to that for safety). It is tick and 1-second traders who suffer in a "fast market" if calcs go too many bars back. S.C. advises fast traders to set "days to load" to a minimum. That has helped. (To simulate runs on prior days, load more days). S.C. may have WARNED Users: Do NOT revise your "precedence" study List order if you have many long-built up interdependent charts and studies, study overlays with spreadsheets per chart. I forgot that and had to restore after trying to speed things up that way. THINK precedence when first designing and sequencing studies. Colored Backgrounds, OCHL day lines, horizontal lines, are examples of what can go near end. Spreadsheets automatically cacl after most everything else (very low precedence). |