Delphi on Vista - Performance?

I am thinking of moving from XP to Vista and though I have found lots about 
making Delphi work on Vista, I have seen nothing on how it performs. The 
common 'knowledge' is that Vista is generally a slow beast, is this borne 
out in practice in things like compile times? I am not looking for 
millisecond timing, just people's perception will do!

A related issue; I am currently on D5 (yes I know. But it worked for me....) 
*If* I was too move to Vista, would it be worthwile also upgrading to Turbo 
in terms of performance? Would the combo be faster, slower? Produce 
bigger/leaner apps?

Regards,
David. 

We have a major application in Delphi 5 still, so don't feel bad.

I would recommend that you move to Delphi 2007 Pro at least.  Enterprise 
if you can afford it.  And get the Software Assurance to get the next 
version of Delphi (2008 - Tiburon) for free.

Delphi 2007 allows you to build apps that use some of the Vista 
features.  You can see what you have been missing (more reliable memory 
management, etc.) that is in Delphi 2007 by visiting the codegear site 
and reading http://dn.codegear.com/article/34323 and 
http://dn.codegear.com/article/37416, among others.

As to operating system move, I would recommend you stay in XP for as 
long as you can.  There has been a lot of discussion on the 
non-technical group as to why so you can find the reasons in Google.

- Eduardo
Stop Continental Drift!
     -- Anon

Eminent Domain Software
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Makers of EDSSpell, EDSPrint, EDSZipCodes and
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David Wilbourn wrote:
> I am thinking of moving from XP to Vista and though I have found lots about

> 
> *If* I was too move to Vista, would it be worthwile also upgrading to Turbo

> in terms of performance? Would the combo be faster, slower? Produce 
> bigger/leaner apps?

"Eduardo A. Salgado" <eas@onedomain.com> wrote in message 
news:4790b51f$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> We have a major application in Delphi 5 still, so don't feel bad.
>
> I would recommend that you move to Delphi 2007 Pro at least.  Enterprise 
> if you can afford it.  And get the Software Assurance to get the next 
> version of Delphi (2008 - Tiburon) for free.
>
> Delphi 2007 allows you to build apps that use some of the Vista features. 
> You can see what you have been missing (more reliable memory management, 
> etc.) that is in Delphi 2007 by visiting the codegear site and reading 
> http://dn.codegear.com/article/34323 and 
> http://dn.codegear.com/article/37416, among others.
>
> As to operating system move, I would recommend you stay in XP for as long 
> as you can.  There has been a lot of discussion on the non-technical group

> as to why so you can find the reasons in Google.
>
> - Eduardo
> Stop Continental Drift!
>     -- Anon
>
> Eminent Domain Software
> "Custom Software Development For Your Domain"
>
> Makers of EDSSpell, EDSPrint, EDSZipCodes and
> XSpell, the IDE Expert.
>
>
> David Wilbourn wrote:
>> I am thinking of moving from XP to Vista and though I have found lots 
>> about *If* I was too move to Vista, would it be worthwile also
upgrading 
>> to Turbo in terms of performance? Would the combo be faster, slower? 
>> Produce bigger/leaner apps?
>>

Hi Eduardo,

Thanks for the comments. They, and the info in the links are very useful.

David,