> I'm using a single CPU, 2.5 gHz system.
A dual core will not help you anyway (unless you are running CPU hungry processes while programming in Delphi) because Delphi does not know how to use it. Delphi compiler is single threaded (at least Delphi7 it is but I seriously doubt that they made it multithread)! If you system is clean the other processes (all except Delphi) should take [together] lees than 1% of your CPU. Also all processes (all except Delphi) should take less then 200MB of RAM. A 'normal' swap for a clean system should be also below 200MB (for a computer with 1GB RAM). All data are for WinXP. If you meet the following conditions then you clearly have a clean system. It also means that you computer is just not enough for your project. In this case, nothing can help you except a hardware upgrade. If your mainboard supports a higher CPU then I recommend you to upgrade it (and do not look for a cheap CPU with a small cache). A 64 bits CPU also will not help you at all so be careful where you spend your money. The second solution will be to split your program in smaller parts (EXE, DLL) and call/compile them only when needed. Chuck Belanger wrote: > Hello: > > As the program that I'm working has been growing, at some point--about > 10-12 mb EXE size--Delphi 7 started becoming VERY much slower. What used > to be seconds to compile, takes 2 minutes. Whenever I scroll or even add > a few keystrokes to the editor, Delphi goes into some limbo where the > disk drive is accessed a lot and I can't continue until it is finished. > Looks like some kind of auto save or auto compile, but it takes almost > as long as compiling does. > > I'm using a single CPU, 2.5 gHz system. > > I've done the following. Anything else I can do? > > Increased RAM from 512mb to 1Gb - this cut down compile time by half, > but still way slower than it was before. > > Also, noticed that even small, test projects compile slower. > > Noticed my C: drive (used for WindowsXP, SP2, btw) and my D: partition > for programs and data, was getting low on disk space so I repartitioned > that from 10-20 gb, which helped only a little, although helped Windows > noticeably. > > Thanks for any tips, > > Chuck Belanger > > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list -> Delphi@elists.org > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> Delphi@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
