Kosztorysant and the fastest optimisation ever
Created: Sept. 15, 2006 Updated: Sept. 29, 2026
At my previous job I wrote a program in Delphi for costing market research studies, it was called Kosztorysant.
It loaded in a flash, but I wanted my splash screen to stay on screen for 3-4 seconds, so I did it with a timeout.
A year after I left, I ran into my successor. He mentioned with a smile that he'd had a success, he had improved the loading of my program and cut it down to 1 second. By lowering the timeout :-)
SplashTimer.Interval := 4000; // my version SplashTimer.Interval := 1000; // after optimisation
Machine-translated from Polish (original).