<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 3:28 AM Alexander Grotewohl via fpc-devel <<a href="mailto:fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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32bit on Windows 64-bit uses Wow64.. which has a bit of overhead as an emulation layer. I believe it's the same one they use for ARM64 too.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It should be kept in mind also that neither 32-bit or 64-bit FPC use GNU LD for linking on Windows by default, but rather FPC's internal one, and it's not hard to imagine why that might perform better on 64-bit as well.</div></div></div>