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bench: add raptorbt as a third engine, and a 10M-bar point (#6)

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The harness compared two engines everywhere; it now compares N against a
reference. manifoldbt is the reference: every parity check and every ratio is
a challenger against it, never two challengers against each other.

raptorbt 0.9.0 joins on three of the four workloads. Its sma_cross comes back
bit-identical to the reference's final equity, and its rsi matches to the last
bit; its ema seeds on a different warmup and it has no fixed-quantity sizing,
so the fee workload records it as unsupported with the reason rather than
leaving a blank cell. On the bracket it diverges in its own documented way: it
never re-arms while the entry level holds, so it books exactly the reference's
round-trips minus the ones that re-enter on the exit bar.

Python moves to 3.12, which raptorbt pins rather than we do: it is built
against pyo3 0.20.3, whose maximum supported CPython is 3.12. Timings from runs
before this change are therefore not directly comparable.

The bar matrix gains 10M and the repetition default drops from 7 to 2. Measured,
those two almost cancel: the job stays around 16 minutes. macOS keeps its old
ceiling, since 10M bars adds 1.55 GB on vectorbt's side alone and that runner
has 7 GB.
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"""One sweep point, one fresh process, one JSON line on stdout.
A parameter sweep is where vectorbt is supposed to be at its strongest: it
broadcasts the whole grid into one vectorised simulation. So it is the workload
where a speed claim needs the tightest gate, and where engines are the easiest
to compare *wrongly*.
Its own process, for three reasons:
* memory. The peak of a large grid is the number that decides what a machine can
run at all, and it cannot be read once another engine has already grown the
allocator in the same process.
* tier. The engine's fan-out allowance is counted per process, so two points
sharing one would interfere.
* isolation. A 100k-combination grid that runs out of memory takes its process
down with it; one point dying should not cost the whole benchmark.
python sweep_child.py --bars 100000 --combos 250
The grid alignment trap
-----------------------
Every engine is asked for the same set of parameter pairs, but nothing forces
them to return the results in the same ORDER. manifoldbt enumerates its grid in
alphabetical key order (``fast`` outer, ``slow`` inner); vectorbt returns one
column per combination in the order its parameter product was built. Zip two of
them together wrongly and every number still looks plausible: the arrays have the
same length, the same distribution, even the same best value. Only the mapping
is scrambled, and the comparison silently becomes meaningless.
So the pairing is not assumed. Each engine returns its results keyed by the
``(fast, slow)`` pair it actually ran, and the comparison joins on that key.
Not every engine has a grid to broadcast
----------------------------------------
raptorbt has no fan-out API for a parameter grid on one instrument, so its
column here is a Python loop over ``run_single_backtest``. That is not a handicap
imposed by the harness, it is the only spelling available, and it is the one a
raptorbt user would write. It gets the same courtesy vectorbt gets on its own
path: each distinct moving average is computed once and reused across every
combination it appears in, rather than recomputed per cell.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import os
import sys
import tempfile
import threading
import time
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
from engines import BY_CODE, ENGINES, REFERENCE # noqa: E402
CAPITAL_TOL = 1e-9 # same yardstick as parity.py: difference over capital
def _mem_mb() -> float:
import psutil
info = psutil.Process().memory_info()
# RSS under-reports under memory pressure, which is exactly the regime a
# large grid puts the machine in. Prefer the private working set where the
# platform exposes it.
return (getattr(info, "private", None) or info.rss) / (1024 * 1024)
class _Peak(threading.Thread):
# `_halt`, not `_stop`: Thread already has a private `_stop()` method, and
# shadowing it with an Event makes `join()` raise "'Event' object is not
# callable" on CPython 3.12, where `_wait_for_tstate_lock` calls it. The
# sampler is the last thing anyone suspects when a sweep dies in join().
def __init__(self, interval: float = 0.002):
super().__init__(daemon=True)
self.interval = interval
self.peak = 0.0
self._halt = threading.Event()
def run(self):
while not self._halt.is_set():
self.peak = max(self.peak, _mem_mb())
time.sleep(self.interval)
def stop(self) -> float:
self._halt.set()
self.join(timeout=2.0)
self.peak = max(self.peak, _mem_mb())
return self.peak
def grid(combos: int) -> tuple[list[int], list[int]]:
"""Split `combos` into a near-square fast x slow grid.
Near-square rather than a long strip: a 1 x N grid would sweep a single fast
period and measure indicator reuse rather than fan-out. The fast and slow
ranges are kept disjoint so no cell has fast >= slow, which would never trade
and would pad the grid with empty simulations.
"""
n_fast = int(combos ** 0.5)
while combos % n_fast:
n_fast -= 1
n_slow = combos // n_fast
fast_vals = [5 + 2 * i for i in range(n_fast)]
slow_vals = [max(fast_vals) + 10 + 5 * i for i in range(n_slow)]
return fast_vals, slow_vals
def tier() -> dict:
"""What the engine thinks it is allowed to do, right now.
Read before and after the sweep. The downgrade that follows a refused
licence ping lands from a background thread, so a run can legitimately start
Pro and finish Community: a number measured across that boundary is not a
measurement of anything.
"""
import manifoldbt as mbt
used, limit, is_pro = mbt._native._combo_budget()
return {"pro": bool(is_pro), "budget_used": int(used), "budget_limit": int(limit)}
def run_mbt(df, fast_vals, slow_vals, workdir, metrics=False):
import manifoldbt as mbt
from manifoldbt.expr import col, lit, when
from manifoldbt.helpers import Interval, Slippage
from manifoldbt.indicators import close as close_px, sma
from workloads import CAPITAL
store = mbt.import_dataframe(
df,
symbol="BENCH",
symbol_id=1,
interval="1m",
data_root=os.path.join(workdir, "data"),
metadata_db=os.path.join(workdir, "metadata.sqlite"),
)
last_ns = int(df["timestamp"].iloc[-1].value)
config = mbt.BacktestConfig(
universe=[1],
time_range_start=0,
time_range_end=last_ns + 86_400_000_000_000,
bar_interval=Interval.minutes(1),
initial_capital=CAPITAL,
execution=mbt.ExecutionConfig(
signal_delay=0,
execution_price="AtClose",
max_position_pct=1.0,
allow_short=False,
position_sizing_mode="FractionOfEquity",
),
fees=mbt.FeeConfig.zero(),
slippage=Slippage.none(),
warmup_bars=0,
)
strategy = (
mbt.Strategy.create("sma_sweep")
.signal("fast", sma(close_px, mbt.param("fast")))
.signal("slow", sma(close_px, mbt.param("slow")))
.size(when(col("fast") > col("slow"), lit(1.0), lit(0.0)))
)
def call():
batch = mbt.run_sweep_lite(
strategy, {"fast": fast_vals, "slow": slow_vals}, config, store
)
# Alphabetical key order: "fast" is the outer loop, "slow" the inner one.
# Keyed by the pair rather than by position, so a change to that order
# breaks the join loudly instead of scrambling the comparison.
out = {}
i = 0
for f in fast_vals:
for s in slow_vals:
m = batch[i].metrics
out[(f, s)] = (
(float(m["total_return"]), float(m["max_drawdown"]))
if metrics else float(m["total_return"])
)
i += 1
if i != len(batch):
raise RuntimeError(f"grid decode consumed {i} of {len(batch)} results")
return out
return call
def run_vbt(df, fast_vals, slow_vals, metrics=False):
"""vectorbt's grid path, taking the faster of its two ways of building it.
The obvious spelling is to hand `MA.run` one window per combination and let
`ma_above` line the two up. It is also the wrong one to benchmark: it
recomputes every moving average once per combination it appears in, so a
10 x 25 grid computes 500 averages instead of 35. Measured on 20k bars and
250 combinations, that spelling takes 8.6x longer to build the same signal
matrix, bit for bit.
So the averages are computed once each and the product is formed by indexing
columns. vectorbt is credited with its quicker path, exactly as the fee
workload credits it with the quicker of its two metric paths.
"""
import itertools
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import vectorbt as vbt
from workloads import CAPITAL, FREQ
index = pd.DatetimeIndex(df["timestamp"])
close = pd.Series(df["close"].to_numpy(dtype=np.float64), index=index)
pairs = list(itertools.product(fast_vals, slow_vals))
columns = pd.MultiIndex.from_tuples(pairs, names=["fast_window", "slow_window"])
fast_idx = np.repeat(np.arange(len(fast_vals)), len(slow_vals))
slow_idx = np.tile(np.arange(len(slow_vals)), len(fast_vals))
def call():
fast_ma = vbt.MA.run(close, window=fast_vals, short_name="fast").ma.to_numpy()
slow_ma = vbt.MA.run(close, window=slow_vals, short_name="slow").ma.to_numpy()
entries = pd.DataFrame(
fast_ma[:, fast_idx] > slow_ma[:, slow_idx], index=index, columns=columns
)
portfolio = vbt.Portfolio.from_signals(
close,
entries=entries,
exits=~entries,
init_cash=CAPITAL,
size=1.0,
size_type="percent",
fees=0.0,
slippage=0.0,
direction="longonly",
accumulate=False,
freq=FREQ,
)
returns = portfolio.total_return()
# Columns carry a MultiIndex of the two window levels. Read the pair off
# the index rather than trusting positional order.
names = list(returns.index.names)
fi = names.index("fast_window")
si = names.index("slow_window")
if not metrics:
return {
(int(kv[fi]), int(kv[si])): float(v)
for kv, v in zip(returns.index, returns.to_numpy())
}
# The drawdown is what makes this workload different: it cannot be read
# off the trade records, it needs the equity curve of every column, and
# `from_signals` defers building that until something asks. Written out
# rather than through `portfolio.max_drawdown()` because the accessor is
# measurably slower on the same data, and vectorbt is credited with the
# quicker of its two paths here exactly as it is everywhere else.
equity = portfolio.value().to_numpy()
drawdown = (equity / np.maximum.accumulate(equity, axis=0) - 1.0).min(axis=0)
return {
(int(kv[fi]), int(kv[si])): (float(r), float(d))
for kv, r, d in zip(returns.index, returns.to_numpy(), drawdown)
}
return call
def run_rbt(df, fast_vals, slow_vals, metrics=False):
"""raptorbt's grid path: one backtest per cell, in Python.
There is no fan-out entry point to call. ``run_multi_backtest`` broadcasts
over *instruments*, not over parameters, so a parameter grid on one symbol is
a loop, and the loop is what a user would write.
The moving averages are hoisted out of it. Computing them per cell would
recompute the same average once per combination it appears in, which is the
spelling explicitly rejected on the vectorbt side; rejecting it there and
accepting it here would be scoring the two engines with different rulers.
"""
import numpy as np
import raptorbt as rbt
from workloads import CAPITAL
timestamps = df["timestamp"].astype("int64").to_numpy()
open_ = np.ascontiguousarray(df["open"].to_numpy(dtype=np.float64))
high = np.ascontiguousarray(df["high"].to_numpy(dtype=np.float64))
low = np.ascontiguousarray(df["low"].to_numpy(dtype=np.float64))
close = np.ascontiguousarray(df["close"].to_numpy(dtype=np.float64))
volume = np.ascontiguousarray(df["volume"].to_numpy(dtype=np.float64))
config = rbt.BacktestConfig(
initial_capital=CAPITAL, fees=0.0, slippage=0.0, upon_bar_close=True
)
def call():
periods = sorted(set(fast_vals) | set(slow_vals))
averages = {p: np.asarray(rbt.sma(close, p), dtype=np.float64) for p in periods}
finite = {p: ~np.isnan(a) for p, a in averages.items()}
out = {}
for f in fast_vals:
fast, fast_ok = averages[f], finite[f]
for s in slow_vals:
level = (fast > averages[s]) & fast_ok & finite[s]
result = rbt.run_single_backtest(
timestamps, open_, high, low, close, volume,
level, ~level, config=config,
)
m = result.metrics
ret = float(m.total_return_pct) / 100.0
# Already computed inside the run, like the reference: asking
# for it costs raptorbt nothing, and that is a result, not a
# concession.
out[(f, s)] = ((ret, -float(m.max_drawdown_pct) / 100.0)
if metrics else ret)
return out
return call
def builder(name: str, df, fast_vals, slow_vals, workdir: str, metrics: bool = False):
"""The grid closure for one engine, ready to be timed."""
if name == "manifoldbt":
return run_mbt(df, fast_vals, slow_vals, workdir, metrics)
if name == "vectorbt":
return run_vbt(df, fast_vals, slow_vals, metrics)
if name == "raptorbt":
return run_rbt(df, fast_vals, slow_vals, metrics)
raise KeyError("no sweep path for engine {!r}".format(name))
def compare(reference_out: dict, other_out: dict) -> dict:
"""Join on the parameter pair, then gate on the worst cell, not the average.
An average would hide a single badly wrong combination in a grid of
thousands, which is precisely the failure a sweep can have and a single
backtest cannot.
"""
from workloads import CAPITAL
missing = sorted(set(reference_out) ^ set(other_out))
if missing:
return {
"status": "failed",
"reason": f"{len(missing)} parameter pairs present in one engine only",
"examples": [list(p) for p in missing[:5]],
}
# Both sides report a total return, a fraction of the account. Comparing
# those directly is the same yardstick parity.py uses for a single backtest
# (a difference in final equity over capital), without the round trip
# through money.
_ = CAPITAL
# A cell is either a total return, or a (return, drawdown) pair when the
# sweep was asked for a performance summary. Both components are gated: a
# drawdown that disagrees is the same class of finding as a return that
# does, and letting it through would publish a timing for work that was not
# the same work.
worst_pair, worst, worst_component = None, 0.0, None
for pair, mv in reference_out.items():
ov = other_out[pair]
components = zip(mv, ov) if isinstance(mv, tuple) else ((mv, ov),)
for index, (a, b) in enumerate(components):
d = abs(a - b)
if d > worst:
worst, worst_pair = d, pair
worst_component = ("return", "max_drawdown")[index]
return {
"status": "exact" if worst <= CAPITAL_TOL else "failed",
"combos_compared": len(reference_out),
"worst_abs_return_delta": worst,
"worst_component": worst_component,
"worst_pair": list(worst_pair) if worst_pair else None,
}
# vectorbt is the only engine here whose grid footprint grows with the number of
# combinations, so it is the only one a point can declare out of scope. The
# others are looped or streamed and cost the same memory at any grid size.
OOS_ENGINE = "vectorbt"
OOS_REASON = (
"vectorbt materialises the simulation per combination (measured: 1.57 MB "
"per combination at 20k bars), so this grid would need tens of gigabytes. "
"Running it would measure the swap file."
)
def main() -> int:
"""Entry point. The scratch store is removed on the way out, always.
One point leaves one mkdtemp behind, and a matrix run spawns a child per
point per engine per memory probe. A day of measurements left 87 of them and
14.7 GB on the volume TEMP points at, which on a full system drive is not
housekeeping, it is the benchmark failing with "Espace insuffisant sur le
disque" in the middle of a run.
"""
try:
return _main(ap_parse())
finally:
_cleanup()
_SCRATCH: list = []
def _cleanup() -> None:
import shutil
for path in _SCRATCH:
shutil.rmtree(path, ignore_errors=True)
def _scratch(prefix: str) -> str:
"""A temporary directory that will be removed when this process exits."""
path = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix=prefix)
_SCRATCH.append(path)
return path
def ap_parse():
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
ap.add_argument("--bars", type=int, required=True)
ap.add_argument("--combos", type=int, required=True)
ap.add_argument("--reps", type=int, default=1)
ap.add_argument(
"--metrics",
action="store_true",
help="ask every cell for a performance summary, not just a total "
"return. This is what a user sweeping thousands of combinations "
"actually reads, and it is the one axis where the engines differ "
"in kind rather than in speed: manifoldbt and raptorbt compute the "
"drawdown inside the run whether it is read or not, while vectorbt "
"defers the equity curve until something asks for it and then has "
"to build one per column.",
)
ap.add_argument("--engines", nargs="+", default=list(ENGINES),
choices=list(ENGINES),
help="engines to run at this point; the reference is always "
"included whether it is named or not")
ap.add_argument(
"--parity-only",
action="store_true",
help="check that the engines agree, and skip timing. The only mode that "
"says anything useful without a licence.",
)
ap.add_argument(
"--vectorbt",
choices=("run", "oos"),
default="run",
help="'oos' declares vectorbt out of scope for this point and runs the "
"others. For grids whose vectorbt side does not fit in memory on "
"any ordinary machine: not running it is the honest reading, since "
"the alternative is a number produced by swapping.",
)
ap.add_argument(
"--parity-anchor",
type=int,
default=250,
help="with --vectorbt oos, the grid size vectorbt DOES run, so the point "
"still carries a cross-engine check of the same code path.",
)
ap.add_argument(
"--memory-only",
choices=sorted(BY_CODE),
help="run ONE engine and report the memory its grid added. Memory has to "
"be measured this way: once any engine has run, the allocator has "
"grown and whatever runs second is measured against a heap it can "
"reuse. Measured in the same process, the second engine reads about "
"half its true peak.",
)
return ap.parse_args()
def _main(args) -> int:
import data as data_mod
fast_vals, slow_vals = grid(args.combos)
actual = len(fast_vals) * len(slow_vals)
df = data_mod.make_ohlcv(args.bars)
workdir = _scratch("mbt-sweep-")
tier_before = tier()
if args.memory_only:
# What is wanted here is the PEAK of running this grid once, because that
# is what a machine has to survive: a box that cannot hold the grid does
# not return a slow number, it returns no number. Running the grid twice
# and measuring the second call would answer a different question (what a
# repeat costs in a warm process: 4.9 MB against 1.4 GB, measured), and
# that number tells a reader nothing about whether the job fits.
#
# But a cold first call would also charge vectorbt its numba compilation,
# a one-off that has nothing to do with grid size. So the engine is warmed
# on a 2x2 grid -- enough to compile, too small to pre-allocate the real
# one -- and the baseline is taken after that.
name = BY_CODE[args.memory_only].name
warm = builder(name, df, fast_vals[:2], slow_vals[:2],
os.path.join(workdir, "warm"), args.metrics)
call = builder(name, df, fast_vals, slow_vals, workdir, args.metrics)
warm()
base = _mem_mb()
watch = _Peak()
watch.start()
call()
peak = watch.stop()
print(json.dumps({
"bars": args.bars,
"combos": actual,
"engine": name,
"baseline_mb": round(base, 1),
"added_mb": round(peak - base, 1),
"tier_before": tier_before,
"tier_after": tier(),
}))
return 0
# An unlicensed sweep CANNOT be timed, and this is not a matter of degree.
# Every accepted fan-out call waits out a fixed interval before any work
# starts, so the stopwatch measures the pause, not the engine: a 100-cell
# grid on 20k bars measured 5.00 s against vectorbt's 0.17 s here, which
# would publish "vectorbt is 29x faster" from a run where the engine did
# almost nothing. Timing is therefore refused outright without a licence,
# rather than gated on grid size.
#
# Checking tier_before against tier_after is not enough on its own: a run
# that starts AND finishes unlicensed shows no change at all, and would sail
# through that comparison carrying a meaningless ratio.
if not tier_before["pro"] and not args.parity_only:
print(json.dumps({
"bars": args.bars,
"combos": actual,
"status": "skipped",
"reason": (
"sweep timing requires a licence: unlicensed fan-out calls wait "
"out a fixed interval, so the measurement would be of that wait. "
"Re-run with --parity-only to check agreement without timing."
),
"tier_before": tier_before,
}))
return 2
# Parity-only still has to fit the unlicensed allowance, which is spent
# across the whole process: one warmup call per engine and nothing more.
if args.parity_only and not tier_before["pro"] and actual > tier_before["budget_limit"]:
print(json.dumps({
"bars": args.bars,
"combos": actual,
"status": "skipped",
"reason": (
f"{actual} combinations exceeds the unlicensed allowance of "
f"{tier_before['budget_limit']} for a single call"
),
"tier_before": tier_before,
}))
return 2
running = [REFERENCE] + [n for n in args.engines if n != REFERENCE]
out_of_scope = {}
if args.vectorbt == "oos" and OOS_ENGINE in running:
running.remove(OOS_ENGINE)
out_of_scope[OOS_ENGINE] = {"status": "out of scope", "reason": OOS_REASON}
calls = {
name: builder(name, df, fast_vals, slow_vals,
os.path.join(workdir, name), args.metrics)
for name in running
}
result = {
"bars": args.bars,
"combos": actual,
"requested_combos": args.combos,
"grid": {"fast": len(fast_vals), "slow": len(slow_vals)},
"data_digest": data_mod.digest(df),
"engines": running,
"metrics": args.metrics,
"tier_before": tier_before,
}
if out_of_scope:
result["out_of_scope"] = out_of_scope
# Warmup, discarded: it is where vectorbt compiles its numba kernels, and
# charging that to every repetition would inflate the result. The warm call
# is what the gate reads, so nothing is computed twice for it.
warm = {name: call() for name, call in calls.items()}
verdicts = {
name: compare(warm[REFERENCE], out)
for name, out in warm.items() if name != REFERENCE
}
for name, detail in out_of_scope.items():
# The engine is not run at this size, so the point cannot carry a
# cross-engine check against it on its own grid. It carries one of the
# same code path at a size that engine can hold: same data, same
# strategy, same adapters, fewer cells. That is weaker than checking the
# grid itself, and the report says so rather than implying otherwise.
a_fast, a_slow = grid(args.parity_anchor)
anchor = compare(
builder(REFERENCE, df, a_fast, a_slow,
os.path.join(workdir, "anchor"), args.metrics)(),
builder(name, df, a_fast, a_slow, workdir, args.metrics)(),
)
verdicts[name] = {
**anchor,
"checked_at_combos": len(a_fast) * len(a_slow),
"scope": "anchor grid, not this grid",
}
detail["parity_scope"] = "anchor grid"
result["parity"] = verdicts
result["status"] = "failed" if any(
v["status"] == "failed" for v in verdicts.values()) else "exact"
if result["status"] == "failed":
# No timing for a grid the engines disagree on. That is the whole point
# of the gate, and a sweep is where it earns its keep.
result["timings"] = None
result["note"] = "timing withheld: unexplained disagreement between engines"
result["tier_after"] = tier()
print(json.dumps(result))
return 1
samples = {name: [] for name in running}
peaks = {name: 0.0 for name in running}
base_mb = _mem_mb()
for _ in range(args.reps):
# Interleaved, so a runner that slows down mid-point penalises everyone.
# Sampled per call rather than across the whole loop: a single peak over
# every engine is the max of them, attributed to none, and memory is the
# number that decides which grid sizes a machine can run at all.
for name, call in calls.items():
watch = _Peak()
watch.start()
t0 = time.perf_counter()
call()
elapsed = time.perf_counter() - t0
peaks[name] = max(peaks[name], watch.stop())
samples[name].append(elapsed)
tier_after = tier()
def med(xs):
return sorted(xs)[len(xs) // 2]
seconds = {name: med(samples[name]) for name in running}
reference_s = max(1e-12, seconds[REFERENCE])
result["timings"] = {
"seconds": {**seconds, **{name: None for name in out_of_scope}},
"ratio": {name: seconds[name] / reference_s
for name in running if name != REFERENCE},
"reps": args.reps,
"per_combo_us": seconds[REFERENCE] / actual * 1e6,
}
# Added by the call, on top of an already-built store / already-prepared
# Series: what running the grid costs, not what holding the data costs.
result["memory"] = {name: round(peaks[name] - base_mb, 1) for name in running}
result["memory_baseline_mb"] = round(base_mb, 1)
result["tier_after"] = tier_after
# A sweep measured across a tier change is not a measurement. The downgrade
# arrives from a background thread after a refused licence ping, so this can
# only be checked after the fact.
if tier_before["pro"] != tier_after["pro"]:
result["timings"] = None
result["note"] = (
f"timing withheld: tier changed mid-point "
f"(pro={tier_before['pro']} -> {tier_after['pro']})"
)
print(json.dumps(result))
return 1
print(json.dumps(result))
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
raise SystemExit(main())