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Overcoming Pipeline Latency During Algorithm Debugging
Ben Griffiths
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Hi All,

I'm here having fun learning Quantopian. As an experienced developer in another industry I am quite familiar with python and debugging. The whole quantative finance world is new to me...

As such, I find myself constantly wanting to try things out and tweak algorithms many times over. I find the IDE passable, given its running within a browser (but would love to see what some other readers have suggested - as an Eclipse plugin, for example), but due to the pipeline running (where I'm not doing much) each time, debugging is slow.

Is there anyway to side-step the pipeline during debugguing - for example to seed a pipeline and have it persist over different executions of the algorithm so I can speed up my development/debugging?

Thanks.

Ben

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