Performance of Visual Basic 2008
Posted January 8th, 2008 by derek DevelopmentThe VB team has released some compelling performance numbers for Visual Basic 2008. A few dramatic ones:
|
VB 2005 (ms) |
VB 2008 (ms) |
|
| Build a large multi-project solution (explicit build operation) |
1,618,605 |
57,543 |
| Responsiveness after opening a project |
255,551 |
38,769 |
| Responsiveness after adding a member to a class |
327 |
36 |
| Invoke Intellisense to see a list of types (first time) |
1,192 |
530 |
Lots more data and some links at the VB team blog.
January 9th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Your performance will be lousy once the msiexec.exe process begins to run mysteriously after installing Visual Studio 2008. It will even hog the CPU when you run Visual Studio 2005. I suspect it is trying to repair something related to the .NET Framework 2.0. Running Visual Studio in safe mode does not help.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:45 pm
I strongly disagree with the table.
I have solution with more than 100 VB files. Build takes more than 3 minutes. After pressing enter at end of the line, Visual Studio is not responding for up to 30secs. I can’t work this way!
April 5th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
turn off ‘Generate XML documentation’ in your project options.
Speeds up the ide greatly.