>>>Just as a matter of interest - I am using a 133MHz Pentium with 32 MB
ram -
>>>4 takes 35 seconds to load !! What does everyone else use ? I was so much
>>>more productive in BP7 !!!
>> I use a dual pentium 200mmx at home with 128mb of RAM... Still a long
load
>> although nowhere near the 4 minute mark... Delphi 4 takes an eternity to
>> load
>Mine is about the same on my laptop - tho it only has 32megs (not for
>long!), so its not supprising. on my home machine (K6-2 350/128meg), it
>takes a little over 12 seconds. And this is NOT what I'd call a fast
>machine, tho it aint slow either. Thats uncached, as I havn't run it
>since I rebooted.
>I think your problem is both RAM and CPU, but mostly RAM - get atleast
>64meg, or as much as you can afford. 64meg should be the absolute
>minimim for serious delphi development (IMO), more if you need to run
>database servers, MTS, Visi etc etc.
I'm afraid that it's not RAM related... without caching it's 21 seconds on
the
above Dual processor with 128mb of RAM running NT4 loading from an
NTFS partition freshly defragmented. Once cached it takes 12 seconds...
I think a lot of the delay is processor (and from NT taskmanager it looks
like
it does all the loading work in a single thread hence no multiCPU speed
up)...
Considering that word97 takes 3 seconds (under a second if cached) I
consider
anything over 5 seconds long... ;) My mind is incapable of visualising a 4
minute
load-time... yikes...
--
Aaron
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