>My current client is seriously thinking of porting his commercial VFP app to Delphi because of the speed of instantiation of the forms ie VFP is too slow on many of the PCs being used Pentiums with 64MB RAM.
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>He accepts that VFP data engine is fast - but this app is not partic data intensive.
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>Has anyone had any experience of how much faster Delphi form instantiation is than VFP - and what the disadvantages of Delphi are. (Apart from fact that I am a complete novice with Delphi !)

Hi Anna.
I've reading some of the response for this thread and it seem to me that your app. is very "simple" with small data tables and thus, not "large" enough to cause any significant delay.

Knowing this, I must ask a few question, how much faster does you client want your app. to come up? Maybe your app is not the problem; may it's his machine.

If you app. was "large" I would maybe understand, but your app. doesn't sound large enough to slow anything down.