There were comments regarding the speed of the later versions of Delphi in the thread
about the Phase Out Plan.

I have Delphi 5 and Delphi 2006 - Delphi 2006 was unusable because of the performance.  
Downloading Hotfix 13 from http://www.codegear.com/downloads/ and following the links for
Registered Users, Delphi fixes some memory issues which seriously degrades the performance.

Also, Delphi Speedup from http://andy.jgknet.de/dspeedup/ is really useful.  The Spirit Of
Delphi Award 2007 was won by Andeas Hausladen for this project.

Some wise people from the Australian Delphi Users Group made these suggestions which made
a significant difference.

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Richard Harding
Windella Computer Knowhow
28 Freeman Drive
Lochinvar NSW 2321
Phone:   61 2 4930 7336
Mobile:   0419 016 032
email:   rharding@wck.com.au