All I'm saying is Dollar for Dollar you can do much better than paying a Premium for a "Gaming Type PC" and with far better expandability if you opt for in later. By going workstation. For example Dell Precision T7910 or R7910. I have no problem getting AB to map 96 Gb of memory with some databases.
-S
From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2016 2:33 PM
To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [amibroker] Re: New computer spec?
Hello,
Don't take too seriously the things I am going to write here, but do you really need such powerful workstation for Amibroker (32 virtual cores, 128 GB of RAM)? Amibroker is so light and fast, that it runs smoothly even on a calculator ;-)
Of course I know - someone who performs lots of backtesting can utilise all that power ...
But as a person who is still in a (neverending) process of learning how to code properly and effectively, I think that the worst thing a user can do is to equip himself with a powerfull workstation at the beginning of his coding journey ;-) If you have a powerful computer, you don't care about proper coding habits, code optimisation and fine-tuning. Why? Because even if you code very poorly, (almost) everything runs smoothly...
From my point of view, it is a good idea to learn some good habits and tricks which makes the formula run fast even on a very old and slow machine. Amibroker still amazes me. Many times I was under the impression, that the formula I wrote, couldn't work any faster, but I was wrong. After some modifications, implementing some tricks or switching to newly introduced functions (like SumSince from version 6.06 instead of Sum() ) it turned out, that the formula might work much, much faster. I have shared some things that made my codes a lot faster on the Proboards forum.
Now I know, that when I finally update my computer(s) and buy a powerful workstation, everything will be running as if it was on a rocket fuel ;-)
Finally I was hoping, that maybe buying a computer with (usually neglected element in trading computers) a fast GPU would be justified and would give me a good excuse (why did you buy GeForce GTX 980 Ti ? - for Amibroker ;-))) , but sadly it turned out, that it is not the case (at least not for now) either ;-)
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/amibroker/conversations/topics/193644
Regards
Posted by: "Sean ONeill" <ONeillSeanP@verizon.net>
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