David, I'll have a look at the invoice and see. Perhaps its a culmination of things.. Ram, Machine.. etc..
This is a $5000 Box.. :) I'll let you know the specs. On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:13 PM, David Brennan <dugda...@dbsolutions.co.nz> wrote: > Hi Kyley, > > Out of curiosity what model is the main solid state drive that has the VM on > it? > > We have a couple of development machines with SSDs on them and they are > faster than the others but not by nearly as much as you found (more like > approx 30s -> 15-20s). OTOH we are just using standard Intel X25-M G2s and I > believe there are now faster drives. > > >From our investigations it appeared write speed is the hold up so either you > have SSDs with blindly fast write speeds or something about your VM > configuration is allowing it to compile everything without waiting for the > writes to be committed to the physical disk. The latter could make sense > since the disk Delphi is writing to in the VM is just a virtual construct > anyway. > > David. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On > Behalf Of Kyley Harris > Sent: Saturday, 6 November 2010 10:49 p.m. > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > Subject: [DUG] Solid State Drives > > for the last 2 years I've been using Vista 64 bit Quad Core with 8GB > Ram, and Normal reasonably fast HDD's > I run Delphi inside a VMware machine running XP 32bit, with 1.5GB ram > allocated. > > doing a full build of my main app is 953000 lines or so and takes > 80seconds or so.. > > > Just got a new machine with windows 7, running the Same virtual > machine. but the Win 7 is using only solid state drives. 100GB and > 220GB > > Doing a full build is only 11 seconds.. > > Worth the money? Very much so.. Time savings over a day is quite large > with the overall improvements > > > -- > Kyley Harris > Harris Software > +64-21-671-821 > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe > -- Kyley Harris Harris Software +64-21-671-821 _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
