Optimizing Delphi build speeds (via; Vin Colgin – Google+; IDE FixPack; DelphiSpeedUp, Microsoft KBs with speed fixes)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23
An interesting thread by Vin Colgin – Google+ – IDE FixPack 5.4.1 shows 36.5% increase in BUILD speed under….
The post and discussion covers these topics:
- using IDE FixPack to increase performance (note: for older Delphi < 2009 versions, use DelphiSpeedUp to improve Delphi speed)
- suggestion by Ilya S on installing Microsoft KBs to improve speed (especially on Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 2008 Server): List of currently available hotfixes for the File Services technologies in Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Server 2008 R2.
- You can view your updates when browsing to the Microsoft Update Catalog from your Windows machine.
- A local SSD is a big speed improvement (:
–jeroen
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 
Kibab said
Here are my tests on IDEFixPack with XE5.2:
– Without IDEFixPack – http://goo.gl/udIyuq (2m 2s)
– With IDEFixPack – http://goo.gl/mgrdmv (25s)
So here I have almost 5x improvement!
Previously we used D2009, and IDEFixPack made build about 2x faster, however without IDEFixPack build time was about 45-50s, and with IDEFixPack 20-22s – so in my case XE5 without IDEFixPack is *unusable*.
Not mention that after 2-4 builds, XE5 runs ‘Out of memory’ (which doesn’t happened on D2009).
All tests on: i5-2500K, 16GB RAM, SSD (D2009+os+src is on OCZ-VERTEX3, XE5+os+src is on Corsair Neturon GTX). Win7Pro fully updated, but without extra hotfixes, with Windows Defender, but bds.exe and source directories excluded from scanning.
PS. “for older Delphi < XE version…" – I think that it should be "for older Delphi < 2009 version…"
jpluimers said
Thanks. Fixed the <XE.
To work around the out of memory issues, try DDevExtensions. It allows to “release compiler unit cache” which solved my memory issues.
Kibab said
Thanks, but I have already tried ‘Release compiler cache…’ – same problem.
My workaround for it is to avoid Build and use Compile (it’s also raises OOM, but after many more runs).
In D2009 I had to make always Build, because Compile *always* failed with errors (100/100 after any code change).
XE5 fixed it somehow, it succeeds about 9/10 times.
I have single project in solution, with about 1600 units in .dpr, exe after compile have ~52MB, DCU dir ~88MB.
Kibab said
Updated links to screenshots (previously was without public permission)
http://goo.gl/AS3v5C
http://goo.gl/1L5zXu
jpluimers said
Thanks.
Petar said
The link to Microsoft Update Catalog points to the “Thanks” webpage ;)
jpluimers said
Oops. Thanks. Fixed.
IL said
> You can view your updates when browsing to the Microsoft Update Catalog from your Windows machine.
You might mean “You can *search and download* updates when browsing to the Microsoft Update Catalog from your Windows machine in Internet Explorer like using this example link http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB2775511“
jpluimers said
Thanks for the update.