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Move to a production Environment which is: - More affordable (read for more less expensive) - More supported - Far more developers worldwide - More 3th party components/development - Developed with a longterm vision, not a "grab as much money as you can" vision Only thing whats holding us back is the transition to a whole new environment, we probably should move from DB also (because we're "locked" to Interbase at the moment). But we'r getting there, more and more Management thinks with us, so gonna see wich new projects can be (partly) be done in a new development ecosystem. It's a pitty with me (with me Colllegue) think that Delphi (or better Pascal) is one of the most practical/readable dev languages whilest compiling one of the most fastes executables (win32). (I started with TurboPascal 5.5, good old times 🙂 ). The sneaky way how EMB moved the subscription from backwards support (whats was the promise when we started with it) to the only fixes in new releases (with new bugs) was/is really a stab in the back to developers. It's really a product of this century, "how to get as much out of our customers with the least effort", lock and squeeze. The example of not getting the LSP (codecompletion, error in sigth and others) in order in many years is the perfect example for this. Maybe it finally fixed in version 15.xxxx and we are tenthousands of dollars investment in the product (as customer) further down the road. Now i go back to work 🙂 , pretend to be happy with 11.3, which i have to start half of the times of his predecessor. [edit] It's a feeling like, paying for a new Mercedes E series but driving a 20year old Ford Ka.

I just made some time for it. I have quite a bit of overtime to work off anyway. #revision 4072

Even at work, where we have DevExpress and a number of other, chunky components installed the IDE loads our big legacy project up in less than 20 seconds. Add 10-15 more seconds of compiling and I am in debugging. Compare that with VS2019, which needs ~1min until IntelliSense kicks in, 1,5 min of compiling, 10 seconds of after-compilation-thinking and finally the project launches. I'm sure there are faster IDEs out there, but Delphi really isn't that bad from startup perspective.

Don't do that! You are invoking undefined behavior. You can only iterate using a pointer like that if the values are in an array, Otherwise, you can't be sure the compiler is not adding padding between them inside the class. If you want to use a pointer to iterate the members, you have to put them into an array first and iterate that instead.

VTune works well. AQTime was an unmitigated AV fest when I last tried it.