Re: BDS2006 exe sizes

Nicholas Sherlock wrote:
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.

I suspect it depends on what you're doing. I have a large app (> 150,000
LOC) which contains a significant amount of assembly code. Ported to D6, it
lost performance by about 20%. That figure was closer to 70% when I tried
D2k5.

Now, obviously I'd be a fool to just fire it up in a new Delphi without
modifying to take advantage of the new features, but in an application that
size it's just too big a job. And in both cases (D6/D2k5) the executable
bloated by over a meg.

D.


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