setComputeOnClose and performance

[braincell84]

Hi,

if I use setComputeOnClose will that mean the EFS runs only once each time a bar closes and that because of that CPU will be working less?

In other words: using it will improve performance, correct?

Thanks

[SteveH]

Yes.

If you have scripts which don't need to analyze every tick coming in, then always use setComputeOnClose() in the preMain().

If you have a hybrid type of script where you look at each tick in some places and other places you only need to do some analysis as a new bar comes in then put this guard code around it:

if (getBarState() == BARSTATE_NEWBAR)
{
    // your newbar code goes here
} 

[braincell84]

Thank you, I'm glad that's true because I've had a few pages open and I notice my CPU slowing down. This should make my indicators much more useful.