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I was runing some tests using the yield curve structure in quantlib mainly: PiecewiseYieldCurve

It seems that I have to fix the evaluation date using such a line : Settings::instance().evaluationDate() = today; or else I get difference results my test is the zSpread and OAS.

What is its role, if we already have a calendar, and we specify the reference date, and when using function like zSpread I give the date, why I still need to fix the evaluation date. Is there interior code that use it?

The second question is about the execution time of this code, I am looping over a set of date, the first time when I set the evaluation date, is quick, but then when I update it next day it become very slow like more than 5 seconds, just this line (I used debugging mode to check on it). Maybe I am doing it wrong is there another way to update it?

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The piecewise curve uses the evaluation date in order to know at which date the passed deposit/futures/swap rates were quoted.

As for the execution time: when the evaluation date changes, it sends notifications to all objects that depend on it for the calculation. However, I haven't seen this take as long as you report. You might have a lot of objects created and kept around, or the notification might trigger some calculation, but it's hard to say without seeing your code.

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