Delphi on Vista - Performance?

[David Wilbourn]

I am thinking of moving from XP to Vista and though I have found lots about
making Delphi work on Vista, I have seen nothing on how it performs. The
common 'knowledge' is that Vista is generally a slow beast, is this borne
out in practice in things like compile times? I am not looking for
millisecond timing, just people's perception will do!

A related issue; I am currently on D5 (yes I know. But it worked for me....)
*If* I was too move to Vista, would it be worthwile also upgrading to Turbo
in terms of performance? Would the combo be faster, slower? Produce
bigger/leaner apps?

Regards,
David.

[Eduardo A. Salgado]

We have a major application in Delphi 5 still, so don't feel bad.

I would recommend that you move to Delphi 2007 Pro at least. Enterprise
if you can afford it. And get the Software Assurance to get the next
version of Delphi (2008 - Tiburon) for free.

Delphi 2007 allows you to build apps that use some of the Vista
features. You can see what you have been missing (more reliable memory
management, etc.) that is in Delphi 2007 by visiting the codegear site
and reading http://dn.codegear.com/article/34323 and
http://dn.codegear.com/article/37416, among others.

As to operating system move, I would recommend you stay in XP for as
long as you can. There has been a lot of discussion on the
non-technical group as to why so you can find the reasons in Google.

- Eduardo
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David Wilbourn wrote:
> I am thinking of moving from XP to Vista and though I have found lots about
>

[David Wilbourn]

"Eduardo A. Salgado" <e...@onedomain.com> wrote in message
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Hi Eduardo,

Thanks for the comments. They, and the info in the links are very useful.

David,