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> Any answers, pointers, tips greatly appreciated, as we've got
> a history of highly satisfactory use of IBObjects with Delphi
> 7 (although with a similar performance hit loading DevEx grids
> from TIBOQuery)...

Any blob fields in the records being loaded? Only asking
because I know there was a performance problem found (Mar 2010)
that related to loading of blobs. Just wondered if there was a
chance the problem had raised its head again.

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Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing