On Jun 12, 6:16 am, nonlinear5 <[email protected]> wrote: > > JBook and Eclipse installed on FreeBSD 8 speed performance for back > > testing and optimisation. 12.7 times vs. Windows crap. > > 12.7 times faster? On the same box? > > > My question: Is it possible to run live trading from shell script and > > command prompt without java GUI > > Yes, it's certainly possible, with some code modifications. However, > I'd note two things: > > 1. In the forward test and trade modes, JBT consumes very little > memory and CPU. You can run dozens of strategies simultaneously > without any degradation in performance. I doubt that you would see > much improvement by running without the GUI. > > 2. What's really slow is backtesting (because it needs to deal with > huge data files with millions of data points and keep the chart data > in memory) and optimization (because the optimizer permutates through > a large number of parameters). If your optimizer runs 12.7 times > faster on FreeBSD, there is certainly a value.
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