Performance comparison of MultiCharts vs Tradestation?

[vicschix]

Has anyone compared the performance, in particular the runtime performance of backtesting, between MultiCharts and TradeStation? I believe each is multi-threaded now, which helps, so it really depends I suppose on which has the more advanced runtime engine, compiler, etc. Anyone have experience comparing the two for long backtesting runs?

Thanks!

 

[Baywolf]

MultiCharts wins in backtesting by a large margin. Both applications may be multi-threaded, but the TS backtesting process is only assigned to one working thread. MC would appear to be using SMP or AMP.

 

[Tums]

MultiCharts publish a benchmark
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=1610998

it drew some firework then,
it might draw more now.

For what its worth, MultiCharts can utilize multi-cores/multi-CPUs, while some other software can't.