I would like to offer some suggestion. Write less code ;-) Regards Leigh
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Kurt Sent: Friday, 17 April 2009 4:40 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues 2 minor 2nd-hand SSD points: - Joel says : boot time went from 2 minutes to 30 seconds, but *compile* time didn't change (probably cpu bound) : http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/03/27.html - Linus says : Get Intel SSD's, and ignore throughput figures (though 250MB/s reads...) as random reads and writes matter more : http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-i-got-one-of-new-intel-ssds.h tml Cheers, Kurt. Stefan Mueller wrote: > I am also keeping my eyes open for SSD .. those drives should be able to > improve compile speeds drastically ... they have close to no seek-times and > manage to read thousands of small files at high speed. > > I probably go with one of the PCIe cards coming out soon (like OCZ Z-Drive, > or PhotoFast Monster) if the price is ok. PCIe cards have the advantage that > they get over the 300MBps (theoretical) limit that SATA-II has. > > The OCZ Vertex-II drive also looks promising: > http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?Itemid=67&id=11365&option=com_content&task > =view > > > Regards, > Stefan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Ross Levis > Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:56 > To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' > Subject: Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues > > I'm looking forward to larger cheaper solid state drives which last up to > 100 years, replacing hard drives which fail every few years. 10+ times > faster than a hard drive. I've heard a PC with one of these drives can boot > Windows XP in 4 seconds. > > Prices will get below US$2 per GB this year. It's still out of my price > range, but I'm considering upgrading my laptop's hard drive to a 240GB > SanDisk drive later this year. > http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=8040 > > Ross. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Richard Bullin > Sent: Thursday, 16 April 2009 12:15 p.m. > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > Subject: Re: [DUG] BDS.exe memory issues > > I'm not really sure if 300mb classifies Delphi as a memory hog if you > look at getting one of the below computers with 192GB of ram, I foresee > a surge in lazy programmers :) > > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&; > articleId=9130538 > > > Richard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Alister Christie > Sent: Thursday, 16 April 2009 12:01 p.m. > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > Subject: Re: [DUG] BDS.exe memory issues > > Currently I'm on 254MB. > > Close Delphi - 0MB > Open Delphi - 11MB > Open Project - 71MB > Compile - 154MB (peaking at around 170MB) > Open a Project with modeling support - 215MB > > And the numbers just keep going up from there the more you do. > > I think it's fair to say that it is a bit of a memory hog. Although I > have 6 chrome processes running currently eating up a total of 155MB. > > I guess we could turn this into a discussion of who is running the most > memory hungry App and/or instance of Delphi currently? > (Currently Jeremy leads at 307MB) > > Alister Christie > Computers for People > Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 > http://www.salespartner.co.nz > PO Box 13085 > Johnsonville > Wellington > > > > Jeremy Coulter wrote: >> Does anyone else get issues with BDS.exe (delphi 2007) using a HEAP of > >> memory? >> at the moment its sitting on 307mb of mem usage ! >> >> Admittedly my current machine only has 2GB (new machine has been >> ordered....YAY) but seriously, thats HEAPS. >> In saying that, I notic that FireFox is sitting on 131mb too. >> >> just wondered if this is a common issue, and if there is a solution to > >> it or not. >> >> >> Jeremy >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >> Post: [email protected] >> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >> Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with > Subject: unsubscribe > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: > unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: > unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: > unsubscribe > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe > _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe
