Very slow IDE

[viana]

Hello,

I'm using Rad Studio 2007 in a Core Duo 2 GHZ with 2 GB RAM, Windows Vita Home Premium.

I've upgraded from D6 some months ago and i've noticed that the new IDE is very slow. Everything i do, even just coding, the IDE frequently 'freezes' for about 5 seconds and start to response again after this freezing. I've noticed that when it freezes, CPU goes to 80 or 90%.

Even if i have only the project opened but are using another application, BDS.EXE keeps using about 40% of my CPU.

Is there anything i can do to run Rad Studio faster ? Maybe disabling some features, like code completion and stuff ? What feature is more cpu-hungry ?

Thanks.

[John Herbster]

... i've noticed that the new IDE is very slow. ...

Viana,

I suggest that you go to QualityCentral and vote for the following
report. It was written to gather the info to help in diagnosing
problems like yours.

Regards, JohnH

Report No: 45646 Status: Open
Add performance monitoring into IDE
http://qc.codegear.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=45646
Instrumenting future IDEs with a performance monitoring data acquisition
package that would gather data that could help diagnose the causes of the
poor IDE performance on some PC configurations.

[viana]

Hi John,

Thanks for your reply, i will do what you suggested. Problem is these QC reports can take months to get proper attention, and i need to improve performance right now, as the slow speed of the IDE is causing my own work to be slow as well.

Thanks

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problems like yours.=20
Regards, JohnH
Report No: 45646 Status: Open
Add performance monitoring into IDE
http://qc.codegear.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=3D45646
Instrumenting future IDEs with a performance monitoring data acquisition =
package that would gather data that could help diagnose the causes of =
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poor IDE performance on some PC configurations.

[John Herbster]

Post by viana
Thanks for your reply, i will do what you suggested.

Thanks. That might help someone in the future.

Post by viana
I need to improve performance right now, ...

In the meantime, I suggest that you look here:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_sitesearch=qc.codegear.com&as_q=Delphi+IDE+slow
(A Google that picks up several QC instances of slow IDE)

and here
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?hl=en&q=group%3Aborland.public.delphi.*+ide+slow
(A Google that picks up a couple thousand newsgroup instances of slow IDE)

HTH, JohnH

[viana]

Hello,

Thanks for the directions. Tried Speedup but with no noticed gain. Will keep researching.

I think i have bad lucky about this new version of Delphi. I've been using D6 for years flawlessly and since i upgraded to RS2007, i have so much problems that i'm even considering to downgrade. Examples :

1 - Very , very slow IDE
2 - Component names disappear after first compile
3 - Components simply diappear after some compiles, and the only way to access them is in object inspector
4- Key violation bug on TClientDataSet (lot of QC entries, but will not be solved to keep 'retro-compatibility')
5 - Screen flashes fast when compiling a project
6 - CPU goes to 100% after closing a project ; only way to close RS is killing the process
7 - Help system ridiculously slow ; try to hit F1 with the cursor in a function.
8 - Class TIBClientDataSet missed ; i had to rewrite a lot of code in my projects.

And another bizarre behaviours.

Every time a new update is released, i download and apply it, waiting for the problems to be solved. But until now, no problem was solved ; actually, i see no improvements about these problems.

So let's keep waiting...

Post by John Herbster

Thanks for your reply, i will do what you suggested.=20

Thanks. That might help someone in the future.

I need to improve performance right now, ...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=3Den&as_sitesearch=3Dqc.codegear.com&as_q=
=3DDelphi+IDE+slow
(A Google that picks up several QC instances of slow IDE)
and here
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?hl=3Den&q=3Dgroup%3Aborland.public=
.delphi.*+ide+slow
(A Google that picks up a couple thousand newsgroup instances of slow =
IDE)
HTH, JohnH

[John Herbster]

Viana,

I have one more suggestion. I recommend that you re-post your last
description of problems into the borland.public.delphi.ide.general group.

Regards, JohnH