## Summary
An honest, tiered cross-library benchmark — and the optimization pass it triggered.
### Performance (wickra-core, outputs unchanged)
Profiling against the other Rust TA crates exposed real inefficiencies. Each
benchmarked indicator is now **5–79% faster** in both streaming and batch:
- **SMA, Bollinger**: flat `Box<[f64]>` ring buffers replace `VecDeque` (−69…79%).
- **RSI**: `100·ag/(ag+al)` collapses three divisions into one; Wilder smoothing
hoists `1/period` out of the hot path (−46%).
- **ATR**: reciprocal hoisted (−42%).
- **EMA/RSI/ATR**: per-tick `Option<f64>` hot state → bare `f64` + ready flag.
Net result vs `kand`: Wickra now wins **RSI, Bollinger and ATR** (streaming), and
ties `ta-rs` on SMA — up from losing every indicator 1.5–6× before.
### Benchmark harness
New `crates/wickra-bench` (publish=false): a Criterion benchmark comparing Wickra
against `kand`, `ta-rs` and `yata` on an identical BTCUSDT candle series, in
streaming and batch modes. Peer APIs were verified against their source, not
guessed. Wired into the nightly `cross-library-bench` workflow as a separate job.
### Honest README
The benchmark section is rewritten into three layered tables (Rust core vs Rust
crates; Python vs the Python ecosystem) that **show the losses as well as the
wins**. The "only library that combines…" claim is gone; the new framing is
breadth + multi-language reach + the deliberate safety trade-off that costs raw
speed. Added an origin/why-slower rationale and a star CTA.
### Python benchmark
Added `tulipy` runners and expanded per-tick streaming coverage to SMA/EMA/RSI/
MACD/Bollinger. `bench.in`/`bench.txt` now lock `TA-Lib` + `tulipy` (hash-pinned);
`pandas-ta` stays out (it requires Python ≥ 3.12, the bench runs on 3.11).
### Notes
- TA-Lib/tulipy numbers in the README Python table are marked ⧗ — they are
produced by the CI Linux job (C extensions don't build cleanly on every
desktop), not measured locally.
- The matching `wickra-docs` prose update is committed separately and will be
pushed with the release, per the docs-don't-lead-the-registries rule.
Verified locally: `cargo fmt`, `cargo test --workspace --all-features` (3413 core
+ bindings), `cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features -D warnings`,
Node build + 498 tests, and pytest all green.
Relicenses Wickra from PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 to the dual, OSI-approved **MIT OR Apache-2.0** (the de-facto Rust convention). Wickra becomes permissive, commercial-use-permitted open source; users may choose either license.
## Changes
- Replace `LICENSE` (PolyForm) with `LICENSE-MIT` + `LICENSE-APACHE` (full texts).
- Cargo: workspace `license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"` (SPDX) + all 7 sub-crates switched from `license-file.workspace` to `license.workspace`.
- `deny.toml`: drop PolyForm from the allowlist.
- Python: `pyproject.toml` PEP 639 SPDX expression; remove the non-commercial classifier (verified: sdist metadata emits `License-Expression: MIT OR Apache-2.0`).
- Node: `package.json`, the 6 platform manifests and both lockfiles.
- README + Python/Node/WASM binding READMEs, CONTRIBUTING, CITATION.cff, PR template, and the WASM `pkg.license` step in `release.yml`.
- SECURITY.md: refresh supported versions 0.1.x -> 0.4.x.
- CHANGELOG: note the relicense under [Unreleased].
## Notes
- No code changes; metadata/text only. `cargo build` and `cargo deny check licenses` pass locally.
- GitHub will auto-detect "MIT, Apache-2.0" once this lands (currently NOASSERTION).
- Matching downstream changes (org `.github` profile, webpage, docs) are in separate PRs; merge those together with the relicense release so the live sites and org profile do not claim MIT before the packages do.
The LICENSE now carries an Additional Permissions section on top of
PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0, so the bare SPDX id no longer describes
it exactly. Update the package manifests to reference the actual file
instead of claiming the unmodified standard:
- Cargo (workspace + all crates): license -> license-file = "LICENSE"
- npm (main + 6 platform packages): LicenseRef-Wickra-Noncommercial-1.0.0
- PyPI: license text notes the additional personal-account permissions
The three Rust examples (backtest, fetch_btcusdt, live_binance) used to
live each in their own crate's examples/ dir, splitting the example set
across crates and burying it inside the source tree. Move them into a new
workspace member crate at `examples/rust/` (package `wickra-examples`,
`publish = false`) so all language examples sit under one top-level
`examples/<lang>/` tree.
* `examples/rust/Cargo.toml` declares the per-binary deps (wickra,
wickra-data with the `live-binance` feature always on, serde_json, tokio
for the macro and current-thread runtime).
* `examples/rust/src/bin/{backtest,fetch_btcusdt,live_binance}.rs` are the
three migrated binaries; their doc-comments and the fetch_btcusdt output
path are updated for the new location and run command
(`cargo run -p wickra-examples --bin <name>`).
* Workspace `Cargo.toml` lists the new member; the now-empty
`[dev-dependencies]` extras (`wickra`, `tokio` in wickra-data and
`serde_json` in wickra) that existed only for these examples are dropped.
* The `[[example]] live_binance` table is removed from wickra-data's
manifest since the file moved out.
* README "Languages" + project-layout, examples/README.md, Quickstart-Rust
and Data-Layer are pointed at the new paths and commands.
`cargo build -p wickra-examples` and `cargo run --release -p wickra-examples
--bin backtest -- examples/data/btcusdt-1d.csv` both succeed; the rest of
the workspace (core, data, wickra) builds, clippies (`--all-targets -D
warnings`) and tests (508 core + 28 data + 1 integration + 74+3+1
doctests) all stay green.
kingchenc