Comments on: Profilers and Memory Debuggers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=631 the Development of my Genealogy Program named Behold http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/../beholdblog.gif Comments by Louis Kessler are Copyright 2000-2013 Louis Kessler, All Rights Reserved. Comments by others belong to the people who made them. By: uwe http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=631#comment-57 uwe Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:17:36 +0000 http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=631#comment-57 Even though FastMM is part of Delphi now, you can still incorporate the latest version from Sourceforge in your project and use the full debug capabilities. You won't find a better tool for tracing memory leaks, IMHO. AntiVirus software is usually the culprit when experiencing a slow Delphi start-up. I had the same problems with D2007 in the beginning. Good luck Uwe Even though FastMM is part of Delphi now, you can still incorporate the latest version from Sourceforge in your project and use the full debug capabilities. You won’t find a better tool for tracing memory leaks, IMHO.

AntiVirus software is usually the culprit when experiencing a slow Delphi start-up. I had the same problems with D2007 in the beginning.

Good luck
Uwe

]]> By: Louis Kessler http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=631#comment-56 Louis Kessler Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:22:04 +0000 http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=631#comment-56 Delphi's default memory manager was changed to FastMM4 a few years ago, so I'm looking forward to the improvements that alone will provide. From what I recall in reading about it some time ago, I don't think the full debug mode is included in the version in Delphi, but there is some debugging and probably logs of memory leaks that can be saved. Even so, I believe AQtime can report so much more about the memory in a more usable and convenient manner. If I'm going to get serious about making Behold work well, then it would help having a top-notch tool to make that job easier. I develop on a 3 MHz single core Intel chip computer, Windows XP, with 3 GB RAM. That should be plenty. There are a bunch of package names that fly by as Delphi 2009 is loading. I'll have to look more closely at what they are tonight. Adobe Photoshop Elements takes about 30 seconds to start up. Maybe it's my AVG antivirus or my Diskeeper defragmenter or my X1 file indexer that's slowing these down. Virtual Shell Tools and the accompanying website's products look very interesting and use Virtual Treeview as its basis. But Behold doesn't do enough Shell and directory management to make that a necessity. They've got some great components, though. Louis Delphi’s default memory manager was changed to FastMM4 a few years ago, so I’m looking forward to the improvements that alone will provide. From what I recall in reading about it some time ago, I don’t think the full debug mode is included in the version in Delphi, but there is some debugging and probably logs of memory leaks that can be saved. Even so, I believe AQtime can report so much more about the memory in a more usable and convenient manner. If I’m going to get serious about making Behold work well, then it would help having a top-notch tool to make that job easier.

I develop on a 3 MHz single core Intel chip computer, Windows XP, with 3 GB RAM. That should be plenty. There are a bunch of package names that fly by as Delphi 2009 is loading. I’ll have to look more closely at what they are tonight. Adobe Photoshop Elements takes about 30 seconds to start up. Maybe it’s my AVG antivirus or my Diskeeper defragmenter or my X1 file indexer that’s slowing these down.

Virtual Shell Tools and the accompanying website’s products look very interesting and use Virtual Treeview as its basis. But Behold doesn’t do enough Shell and directory management to make that a necessity. They’ve got some great components, though.

Louis

]]> By: uwe http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=631#comment-55 uwe Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:46:32 +0000 http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=631#comment-55 Hi Louis The best option you have is FastMM in full debug mode. Regarding the speed of D2009: it should be much faster than 16 secs to start it up. How much RAM do you have? VirtualShellTools are very powerful (I use them myself), but they have a steep learning curve and there's almost no documentation available. Just my 2c Uwe Hi Louis

The best option you have is FastMM in full debug mode.

Regarding the speed of D2009: it should be much faster than 16 secs to start it up. How much RAM do you have?

VirtualShellTools are very powerful (I use them myself), but they have a steep learning curve and there’s almost no documentation available.

Just my 2c
Uwe

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