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What's even worse is TS2000 is 32 bit which means it should run about 4
times as fast as TS 4.0, based on my experience with other programs going
from 16 to 32 bit.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Hewitt <kevii@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Omega List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 27, 1999 6:35 PM
Subject: TS2000 Speed
> Has anyone compared the speed of TS2000 with TS4?
>
> I just did an 11 test optimisation of a simple system on the same 8
trading
> days of 24 hour tick data and it took 60 seconds on TS4 and 4 minutes(!)
on
> TS2000.
>
> My machine is an AMD K2-300 with 128mb RAM and Windows 98. The system was
> freshly transferred to TS2000 and the system was automatically built. I
> changed nothing but it showed 25% more trades and lower profit than on
TS4.
> I ran both tests with only one version loaded at a time and the Servers
> offline.
>
> I had 8 days of data in TS4 but needed to load 11 days in TS2000 to get
the
> same date range - does TS2000 count calendar days while TS4 counts days of
> data?
>
> Even so, the speed of TS2000 is extremely disappointing. Everything seems
> to run like molasses compared to TS4.
>
> BTW, I have the MS-Office 2000 beta loaded. I moved all the OBDC files in
> windows/system to a save folder before re-installing TS2000 and it worked.
> I then had to copy a few of them back to get TS4 to work again.
>
> Anyone else unhappy with relative speed?
>
> Kevin Hewitt
> Brisbane Australia
>
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