@gmst: This guy's hilarious. Last I know, 5-6 ticks per second = 1 tick per 180 milliseconds. Some "hft" indeed.
HAHA. Yes, I was trying hard to not take him seriously, but finally I got enough of him. He has been trolling non-stop from Monday onwards. He ruined this thread as well. Btw, thanks for the link. I will read that thread - sounds interesting.
Obviously it was. From the context it should have been clear that it referred to millions. That includes deserialization and a full merge-sort algorithm that handles multi symbol feeds. I have not seen such numbers at tickzoom, any event processing engine nor kdb but then I am not a k expert. And it referred to the testing and profiling engine in comparison with matlab, r, or other vectorized engines without the slightest regard to hft.
Cant compare Amibroker to Bloomberg. AB is pretty much a one man show , no? And its not a full blown information terminal. Suspect 95% of bloomberg get done on the server side. AB is very fast even doing everything on the users pc.
Yeah, BB is a full blown professional terminal for larger firms and pretty pricey, around $1700/month. AFAIK, AB is a three men show. Anyway I just love its power and speed.