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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (43487)	12/31/1997 1:54:00 PM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Paul, my problem with RealTick III is not the modem. I have a cable modem, which blows 56K out of the water. (I upgraded from ISDN and there was a very noticible improvement.) The problem is apparently slow charting code in the tick charting module. Sure, I'm sure that this is rotton code and Townsend could make it much faster, but they haven't - that's the real world - and a major reason why lots of people need faster processors. I've done some programming using their API, and from my observations with my own code (which does not do charting) I do not believe that the problem is either the transmission speed or the code that deals with receiving the stream. My own code is able to easily keep up with tick data on a couple of thousand stocks. The RT3 tick charts sometimes aren't able to keep up when you have only a half-dozen on screen - or even one if the trading is particularly hot. In any case, the faster the processors, the sloppier programmers get. The sloppier programmers get, the faster you need your CPU to be. ;)

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