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Re: Best alternative to TradeStation 2000i?



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On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Mark Brown wrote:

> > 3: Use Perl :-)
> 
> no now we have a Unix-List for that maybe latter, I have to get running like
> the rest of you and dont have time for a Linux project right now not that we
> arent working and thinking on one in our spare minutes..

Perl is very cross-platform. Gurusamy Sarathy's port  for Win32 has a ton 
of great modules so most people do not need to compile their own 
installation. 

> 
> > So when the user elects to create a VB function, is the result compiled or
> interpreted
> 
> Oh both ofcourse you know the compiled will be the quickest like BASIC..

The reason I asked is that the current version of VB is supposed to
compile the code so it is reputed to be (nearly?) as fast as C. I was just
wondering if your app does this. 

> and how does the performance compare with equivalent functions written in C?
> 
> DER dont know however you can write a C program and run it in our program.
> ANY LANGUAGE that you can make a COM object like C or Pascal can be used in
> TraderWare!!!!!!!!!!!!!   yeee hawww  free at last free at last.....mb

Very cool.

>  Is this documented anywhere?
> 
> no we will build it first and document it latter ok  mb

Performance is important. If you can demonstrate significant RT 
performance over other products, you have half the battle won.

Cheers,

Jim