Just got my demo set up at mirus. I can see a diffrence already. I run XP on a 2.93GHz, 1GB of RAM. Nothing else on this computer.
I have done some testing this morning with various settings, and I have narrowed down the performance issues to two main things: 1. Time & sales is very intensive, removing it speeds up performance. 2. Even more importantly, range charts are also very intensive... even without any indicators, a range chart seems to slow things down significantly. With a few range charts open the time and sales coming in lags in a noticeable manner. Apparently NY7 has a number of performance improvements - hopefully we will get to see them soon!
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