VR System Test – script MetaTrader 4

I often wondered and asked questions on the forum: “Which computer to choose for maximum performance of the MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 Terminals?” This question is interesting to many at the time of an upgrade or a purchase of a new PC with a focus on the performance of the MetaTrader, which is better to buy? Intel-based or AMD? How many and what kind of RAM should there be? Which motherboard? Which drive to select for data storage: SSD or HDD ?

Developers praise the performance and super speeds of the МetaТrader 5 Terminal, but how does a usual trader or an amateur programmer check the developers’ words himself? Write some code? But which? What to check with? How to compare the performances of МetaТrader 4 and МetaТrader 5 at all?

Anyway, I thought about it for a while and decided to write a tester script to check the performance of the PC and the MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 terminals.

Part of the code is taken from the Testing the new MQL5 compiler for x64 platforms – speed up calculations from 2 to 10 times! topic.

All I did was combine the codes of all the tests into a single script and add all these codes via a class, i.e. the script tests the PC and the terminals in two types of programming: procedural and OOP. I also added a few tests related to rendering of graphical objects, their displacement and deletion, plus handling CCanvas class test, plus the measurement of CopyRates function operation speed when copying 1 000 000 minute bars. 45 tests in total.

Additionally, honesty of VPS and VDS hosters can be checked using the script (by comparing performance on test periods).

You are welcome to take part in testing your PC by my example. I ran this test on my PC at maximum performance with empty startup.

The principle of operation of the script: once started, the script runs tests step by step, creates and deletes everything needed for the test, and finally opens a results table by itself.

My work PC:

• OS name:     Windows 10 Pro
• Type:           Computer based on x64
• CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T Processor, 3311 MHz, cores: 6, logical processors: 6
• RAM:          8,00 GB
  
• Drive:         SSD Model OCZ-AGILITY3 90 GB

This is the result:

	MT4	MT5		How many times МТ5 is faster
===TERMINAL INFO===	0	0
TERMINAL_BUILD	902	1210	Build
TERMINAL_CPU_CORES	6	6	Cores
TERMINAL_DISK_SPACE	14228	14134	Mb
TERMINAL_MEMORY_PHYSICAL	8107	8107	Mb
TERMINAL_MEMORY_TOTAL	4095	16214	Mb
TERMINAL_MEMORY_AVAILABLE	3737	0	Mb
TERMINAL_MEMORY_USED	358	33245	Mb
===TEST===	0	0
Test Ackermann	2406	0	MilSek	Absolute *
Test Ackermann OOP	2969	0	MilSek	Absolute
Test Arrays	21422	297	MilSek	72,13
Test Arrays OOP	7312	437	MilSek	16,73
Test BubbleSort	13422	672	MilSek	19,97
Test BubbleSort OOP	4297	656	MilSek	6,55
Test Call	969	0	MilSek	Absolute
Test Call OOP	906	0	MilSek	Absolute
Test Fibo	2594	0	MilSek	Absolute
Test Fibo OOP	2656	0	MilSek	Absolute
Test Float	2359	0	MilSek	Absolute
Test Float OOP	2516	0	MilSek	Absolute
Test Matrix	20969	672	MilSek	31,20
Test Matrix OOP	7984	656	MilSek	12,17
Test Moments	7578	5578	MilSek	1,36
Test Moments OOP	7266	5594	MilSek	1,30
Test NestedLoop	5672	0	MilSek	Absolute
Test NestedLoop OOP	6015	0	MilSek	Absolute
Test PiCalculate	12000	3515	MilSek	3,41
Test PiCalculate OOP	11953	3500	MilSek	3,42
Test QuickSort	11734	2110	MilSek	5,56
Test QuickSort OOP	12782	1234	MilSek	10,36
Test Random	3297	516	MilSek	6,39
Test Random OOP	3203	531	MilSek	6,03
Test Sieve	18828	1078	MilSek	17,47
Test Sieve OOP	18890	1094	MilSek	17,27
Test StrCat	47	1578	MilSek	0,03
Test StrCat OOP	47	1766	MilSek	0,03
Test String	250	437	MilSek	0,57
Test String OOP	235	453	MilSek	0,52
Test StrPrep	5406	1922	MilSek	2,81
Test StrPrep OOP	5500	1938	MilSek	2,84
Test StrRev	6719	4265	MilSek	1,58
Test StrRev OOP	7125	4297	MilSek	1,66
Test StrSum	5843	3922	MilSek	1,49
Test StrSum OOP	5844	3984	MilSek	1,47
Test ObjectCreate	63	157	MilSek	0,40
Test ObjectMove	46	343	MilSek	0,13
Test ObjectDelete	579	0	MilSek	Absolute
Test ObjectCreate OOP	46	125	MilSek	0,37
Test ObjectMove OOP	63	328	MilSek	0,19
Test ObjectDelete OOP	547	0	MilSek	Absolute
Test CopyRates	94	0	MilSek	Absolute
Test Canvas	30078	28047	MilSek	1,07
Test Print(Hello, world!!!)	1047	7453	MilSek	0,14
Test Final	281594	89609	MilSek	3,14

 

* Absolute — absolute superiority of MetaTrader 5.

Version for МetaТrader 5

// Important!!! It is not recommended to make changes to the script without understanding the consequences.
// The script is designed to evaluate the performance of the computer (Tablet, Desktop/Stationary, VPS/VDS servers, Servers).
// The script evaluated the computer in 45 tests of different focus in the two types of programming: OOP and procedural.
// Part of the codes was taken from open sources  Author: Renat Fatkhullin
// Program put together by Vladimir Pastushak     
// Main performance indicator - time. The less time calculations required, the more productive are the computer and the МetaТrader Terminal.