Sorry,
I should have been more clear. The backtest I was referring to is
coded in AFL, not the built-in backtest. It is just part of the
indicator execution going on all the time in my system, so my comment
still holds, except the increased compute power is a beneficial factor.
BR,
Dennis
On Aug 5, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Tomasz Janeczko wrote:
> Wrong!
>
> One line is parsed/executed ONCE, REGARDLESS of number of BARS under
> test.
>
> So your 50000 bar backtest will STILL consume 0.0000001 sec (0.1
> microsec) for your comment.
>
> Note also that this measurement was done long time ago and on your
> modern computers
> timings should be ~5 times less.
>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
> amibroker.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <amibroker@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 9:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: AFL programming style questions
> comments /* */ vs. //
>
>
>> Tuzo, Joe,
>>
>> So if I understand this correctly, in my code I use many loops for
>> complex functions and comment many lines because of the complexity.
>> If each line I comment takes 100 ns and I am running a 50,000 bar
>> backtest, I could end up with 800 ms of time wasted in // comments!
>>
>> Since the /* */ comments are removed once when the formula is loaded,
>> they are not going to affect these times.
>>
>> I don't think I am wasting that much time in // comments though,
>> because that would mean that half my execution time was skipping
>> comments and I don't think that is reasonable. Looking over some of
>> my loops, I can see that I kept the comments on lines inside the
>> loops
>> to a minimum.
>>
>> Still, I would like to comment my code freely without thinking that
>> my
>> comments are hurting the execution speed.
>>
>> That means that I need to use /* */ comments for code unless the //
>> EOL comments are also removed once when loaded.
>>
>> BR,
>> Dennis
>>
>> On Aug 5, 2008, at 3:25 PM, tuzo_wilson wrote:
>>> Joseph,
>>>
>>> Thanks for digging that up...my Yahoo search came up empty.
>>>
>>> If I'm reading the above correctly, C++ style comments are actually
>>> *faster* than C style (for a single line). /* */ block comments
>>> over
>>> multiple lines may be faster in that scenario.
>>>
>>> Either way, those numbers are quite small so, IMO, it would be
>>> better
>>> to use C++ // style comments exclusively. Then in the case when
>>> debugging is required whole code blocks can easily be commented out
>>> with /* */ comments.
>>>
>>>
>>> Tuzo
>>
>>
>>> --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "J. Biran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It was first mentioned in release notes for AB 4.88. also
>>>> quoting from another message:
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomasz
>>>> Janeczko
>>>>> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 12:32 PM
>>>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>> Subject: Re: [AmiBroker-at] Re: Conditional #include
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I took a look at code part that handles comments and
>>>> improved
>>>>> it now, so single line of /* */ comment takes now 0.14
>>>> microseconds,
>>>>> when single line of // comment takes 0.10 microseconds.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> Tomasz Janeczko
>>>>> amibroker.com
>>>>
>>>> I am glad I bothered searching for the original information.
>>>> I somehow remembered the numbers were in milliseconds not
>>>> microseconds. Ok, I will be able to sleep better now ;)
>>>
>>
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