Delphi 2009 (beta): Installation speed has been improved a lot!

10. August 2008 in Delphi by holger | View Comments

Just as for Highlander, I am very proud having been chosen as one of the Beta-Bloggers by CodeGear. I will do my best to point out interesting new things about Delphi 2009 on my blog that hopefully make the wait for you a little bit easier until Delphi 2009 is being released.

I just finished installing to be precise and I am amazed already.

Thinking back to last year, I filled out the Delphi Survey which was initiated by Nick Hodges. One of my major grudges about Delphi 2007 was the time needed to install it. Thus, I put in a request for a better install time. Delphi 2009 surely delivers in this regard. It takes about 5 minutes to completely install Delphi 2009 on my system. Considering that this number was at about 10 minutes for Highlander, it is a great improvement.

All information given here refers to a pre-release beta version of Delphi 2009.

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  • http://www.dummzeuch.de Thomas Mueller

    So the installation time has been halved. Did you maybe upgrade your system to something 3 times as fast in the meantime?

  • http://flickdotnet.de holger

    Yes, the system has been updated, but I installed Delphi 2007 on the same system to do the comparison, obviously :)

    It is a Quadcore Intel CPU with 4 GB RAM. The disk is average with 7500 rpms, SATA. The system is Windows XP Pro inside VMWare.

    Delphi 2007 took about 10 minutes, Delphi 2009 beta about 5.

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