Backtesting / Optimising Speeds
Backtesting / Optimising Speeds
21 Jan 2025, 22:48
Backtesting speeds on the Mac seem to be pretty slow and getting slower. Larger optimisations will start quickly and i can see that memory usage goes up and eventually maxes out and then things really slow down. Other platforms can run the same backtest code in a fraction of the time.
Are there plans to optimise this further, perhaps to use GPU or other methods to speed this up, it seems completely unusable at times.
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luz.ric
15 Feb 2025, 00:32
( Updated at: 17 Feb 2025, 12:10 )
RE: Backtesting / Optimising Speeds
dtio said:
Hi @luz.ric
May I know what hardware spec of your macOS? I’ve interest of getting a Mac Mini to run the cBot optimisation but I just afraid the speed and performance of running it. Hope you can give some insights. Thank you.
Sure. I have a new MacMini M4 Pro with 24GB RAM. It's lightning quick with so many things but I get the feeling that cTrader V5 is a lot slower than the old version and they have done nothing to optimise it. Having said that, I don't think it's any faster on a PC. I get the impression that this is a cTrader issue, not a “Mac” issue.
I tested my i9 intel machine with windows 11 and it was a little slower than the M4 MacMini
@luz.ric
dtio
26 Jan 2025, 12:39 ( Updated at: 14 Feb 2025, 18:19 )
Hi @luz.ric
May I know what hardware spec of your macOS? I’ve interest of getting a Mac Mini to run the cBot optimisation but I just afraid the speed and performance of running it. Hope you can give some insights. Thank you.
@dtio