We are looking for ways to speed up object instantiation for a large number of objects

Our application involves a complicated form with many hundreds of fields. We want to be able to display this form completely with all of the fields simultaneously on screen.

It works fine on newer faster computers. On older computers (<500mhz, there seems to be a sudden jump in the loading time. For example 700 MHz ... 10 seconds, 450 MHz over a minute. This effect is pretty much the same regardless of the amount of memory in the computer.

For marketing purposes, we need the program to be useable on these older machines. We will lose a significant share of the market if our application only runs on new machines.

Profiling tells us that a large portion of time is spent on addobject statements. (Once the objects are created, the performance is acceptable)

The objects are mostly non-visual objects that are being created in code classes in a procedure file. We are wondering if defining these objects in a VCX might significantly increase performance.

We thought of the SaveAsClass feature but it can't be used here because of the non-visual classes. Is there any other way to quickly instantiate a large container object, which includes many other objects, without executing all the individual addobject statements?

I'd appreciate any tips you might have to help deal with this situation.