Wickra.TimeMachine 0.1.2

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Wickra Time Machine — C#

Part of the Wickra ecosystem: — for C#. dotnet add package Wickra.TimeMachine — prebuilt native library, no system dependencies.

.NET bindings for wickra-timemachine over the C ABI hub, via source-generated P/Invoke. Build a TimeMachine from a spec JSON, load a recorded feed, and seek to any instant — the same protocol the CLI and every other binding speak, returning the same bytes.

Install

dotnet add package Wickra.TimeMachine

The native library ships prebuilt per platform under runtimes/<rid>/native/, selected automatically. There is nothing to compile. Targets .NET 8 and later.

Requires .NET 8+. The native library (wickra_timemachine) must be resolvable on the loader path — PATH on Windows, LD_LIBRARY_PATH on Linux, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on macOS — or beside the assembly, where the bundled resolver finds it.

Quick start

using Wickra.TimeMachine;

const string spec = """
{"book_depth":10,"tape_cap":64,
 "indicators":[{"name":"Rsi","params":[14]},
               {"name":"Macd","params":[12,26,9]}],
 "snapshot_interval":256}
""";

using var tm = new TimeMachine(spec);
tm.Command("""{"cmd":"load","data":"<JSONL feed>"}""");
string snapshot = tm.Command("""{"cmd":"seek","ts":1700000600}""");

A seek is a deterministic re-fold, not an interpolation: seeking backwards costs what seeking forwards costs, and lands on the identical state. play streams a range of instants and is exactly the sequence of individual seeks over the same range — the tests in every binding hold those two equal.

Indicator names resolve through the wickra-backtest registry, so anything the backtester can name works here with the same parameters. Names that read something beyond the bar — an order book, a funding tick, a reference series, the market cross-section — are refused with the feed they would have needed, because the re-fold hands the indicators the trade print alone.

Benchmark

Every binding forwards to the same data-driven Rust core, so what this one adds is the call overhead of [LibraryImport] P/Invoke over the C ABI, not a different result. The core's throughput is measured by the repository's benchmark suite and the nightly bench.yml run; the numbers, the machine and how to reproduce them are in the repository BENCHMARKS.md.

Documentation

The full guide, the spec reference and the API documentation live in the main repository and the documentation site:

• Repository: https://github.com/wickra-lib/wickra-timemachine
• Docs (guides, spec reference, cookbook): https://timemachine.wickra.org
• Runnable example: examples/csharp/

Wickra Time Machine ships native bindings for Python, Node.js, WASM and Rust, plus a C ABI hub that any C-capable language (C, C++, C#, Go, Java, R) links against — all forwarding to the same data-driven, unsafe-forbidden Rust core.

Security

Found a security issue? Please don't open a public issue. Report it privately via the repository's Security tab ("Report a vulnerability") or email support@wickra.org with a subject line starting [wickra security]. Full policy: https://github.com/wickra-lib/wickra-timemachine/blob/main/SECURITY.md.

Disclaimer

Wickra Time Machine is a research tool, provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. It reconstructs recorded market microstructure for analysis; nothing here is financial advice, and trading carries risk of loss.

License

Licensed under either of Apache-2.0 or MIT at your option.