Re: BDS2006 exe sizes

Dunny wrote:
I'd have thought it was obvious that the greater the revision number of Delphi, the greater the file size. D5 produces files that are as large as I'm prepared to go. Any further up and not only do they get slower, they get far, far bigger.

It's not true that they get slower. Delphi 2006 code runs much faster thanks to the new memory manager, inlining support (especially for things like Length() for strings) and better execution of initialization code.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock
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