UPDATE:
There is certainly something wrong with the NT8 backtester engine. I bit the bullet and took the same NT 8 code and ported it over to NT 7. I have done all of this with the newest NT7 64bit software. With the same everything: tick data, source code, settings, etc I was able to run the exact same test in less than a second that was taking 5 seconds in NT8. I than ran the same optimization and it is going about 1000 times faster, literally. Only took a couple seconds in NT7, was going to take 30-minutes to an hour in NT8 for only 80 iterations. Now onto memory usage. In NT8 my RAM usage was around 60GB after only 30 iterations of my optimization. I am currently running a much larger optimization in NT7(around 100k iterations), it is about halfway done and has not budge from 7GB since the test started. Not to mention 100k iterations in NT7 only takes around 10 minutes, 80 iterations in NT8 was 30-60 minutes. That's night and day difference.
I hope I can help NT resolve the issue.
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