computer upgrade for better speed of testing
- best CPU type for intensive EA testing?
- Strategy agent won't disable cores
- New CPU is better?
- Single precision, called "float" in the C language family, and "real" or "real*4" in Fortran. This is a binary format that occupies 32 bits (4 bytes) and its significand has a precision of 24 bits (about 7 decimal digits).
- Double precision, called "double" in the C language family, and "double precision" or "real*8" in Fortran. This is a binary format that occupies 64 bits (8 bytes) and its significand has a precision of 53 bits (about 16 decimal digits).
The other basic formats are quadruple precision (128-bit) binary, as well as decimal floating point (64-bit) and "double" (128-bit) decimal floating point.
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This has come up a few times before..
Rather than worry about the PC spec to the n-th degree (and cost),
you are better to review your code for unneccessary executions, scale out indicator code to actual separate indicators, etc
Just make sure you dont run out of RAM and have resonable MHz on the CPU, L2 cache never hurts either!
FWIW
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you are better to review your code for unneccessary executions, scale out indicator code to actual separate indicators, etc [...]
All very true. The one thing I'd add is that there is, unfortunately, an inverse correlation between data quality and backtesting speed. The better the data, the more ticks that tend to get simulated in the MT4 strategy tester. And the number of simulated ticks is perhaps the single biggest determinant of backtesting speed.
Do MT4 strategy tester supply Linux?
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