>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 !)

Another thought that occurred to me was that if the project was created using some sort of framework, there may be a bunch of classes and such that are not particularly needed for what is essentially a one form app. I know that I did mine this way and got a whole class library including a cApplication object that gets instantiated etc...