the 2 additional fields could have been 4 or 8 or any number that is not
immediatly limiting.
personally, i hate artificial ticker as it is not a good design.
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Tomasz Janeczko" <gro...@...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> 1. You need to conserve memory. That is paramount importance. Not because of
> RAM, but because of CPU CACHE.
> Anything that exceeds CPU on-chip cache size runs 10 times slower.
> 2. On 64 bit systems there are strict guidelines for alignment for best
> performance - the structure needs to be 8 byte aligned, so
> you can not have odd number
> of floats in the structure.
> 3. It would make it very difficult to write 3rd party plugins if quotation
> structure size was not known in advance
> 4. If you really want more fields - use different ticker (artificial ticker)
> and AddToComposite or use static arrays.
>
> All in all, for all practical reasons it makes no sense.
>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
> amibroker.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tipequity" <l3...@...>
> To: <amibroker@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 11:06 PM
> Subject: [amibroker] Aux data fields
>
>
> > Tomasz
> >
> > What is the resean for limiting the number of aux data fields to two?
> > Wouldn't it give more flexibility if it could have been user
> > defined? TIA
> >
> >
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