2009 Performance

I've just had an e-mail from our VAR announcing the 2009 rollout. 65%
faster than 2008. What bullshit! I think the same promise was made in
2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. The only way to ensure SW
begins to act responsibly is to never upgrade.

 

That speed increase is the increase in crash speed not performance increases

 

And just today i found out that if I open an assembly in lightweight
and try to save it with DBWorks R10 running it will crash the whole
thing, no matter if i set lightweight to resolved before I save....it
crashes anyhow. Should be solved in SW 2009 ...but who knows...and
it's not here by tomorrow. Open in lightweight was one of the things
which would speed up things, but it got me struggeling for quite a few
days now.

// Krister

 

OK, give me 2009, and I'll copy a small project in say 2006, and then
copy it in 2009, and I'll see just what the difference is in a
project, not just speed of a particular operation or series of
operations.

#1 is the software must not crash.
#2 is all the standard extrude, rotate, loft & sweep functions must
work without glitches
#3 accessory modeling functions must work flawlessly (there's been
enough time to get it right).

Bo

 

I'm afraid 2009 is a dog.

The part was built entirely in 2009 SP0. I had been running 2008 which
was noticeably slower than say 2004. I did a project building a single
part and got to the point that I could go on another machine and check
my email while it was rebuilding or performing any operation. The part
could be categorized as swoopy stuff and was a custom handle for a
customer. The part had three configurations and multi-bodies was used.
The last time I did a performance check it was taking 100+ seconds to
rebuild.

Conclusion: SW2009 is significantly slower than 2008 on part rebuild time.

While working in 2009 it was also apparent that the user interface was
noticably slower. I would call it jerky and unresponsive. I found I had
to pace myself because the UI couldn't keep up with my mouse clicks.

In addition to that I had frequently CTDT (Crash To Desk Top)
experiences. The part did not use a great deal of memory. I don't think
I used more than a gigabyte of RAM at any point in the life of this part.

Some of the higher level features used were:
Lofts
Boundary Loft
Fill Surface
Shelling
Splines
Ribs
Surfaces
2 Surface Fillets
3D sketches
Multi Body
Multiple Configurations.
External References

I was running this on:

AMD 3000+XP
2 GB Ram
500 XGL NVidia graphics (dual head)
Windows XP Pro

Given the claims of 60%+ speed improvement SW 2009 should have run a lot
faster on this setup. As it is I would say that in general any speed
improvement applies to a limited range of SW functionality that doesn't
include swoopy stuff in parts with multiple configurations.

In addition to this I have not been able to install SP1.0 and know that
other companies in this area are having the same problems installing the
service pack.

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