Delphi 2006 was developed under the slogan: “Achieving higher quality levels will be a journey and not a destination”. Performance is certainly part of the overall Quality, and that was really improved with Delphi 2006.
The performance of Delphi is measured at two different places:
- General Delphi-IDE performance
- Perfomance of applications compiled with Delphi
To say it directly: Delphi 2005 was a disaster in the context of the IDE
performance. Until update pack 3 it was hardly usable.
When I started DeXter (DeXter is the codename of Borland Developer
Studio 2006) the very first time, I was really surprised: It performed as it
should perform: “fast”. You can start a project, add components, edit your
source with no productivity blocking delays anymore – even with all the “smart”
features still enabled. Code Insight, Error Insight, Together Modeling, and
other features just work without slowing down everything else – like it did in
Delphi 2005.
If you got your Delphi 2006 box yet, and find any spots where it still feels
“slow”, then you might add your comments here:
target=_Blank>Steve Trefethen : Looking for feedback on Delphi 2006
performance
Applications compiled with Delphi 2005 basically did not behave differently
than those compiled with Delphi 7 for example (if using the same components
of course). With Delphi 2006 your applications may get a pretty nice performance
boost. This is basically because of a new memory manager, optimized
string handling routines and some compiler magic.
Stay tuned for details on the performance boost …
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