<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><p class="">5) When CPU is the bottleneck (antivirus turned off), the 32-bit
hosted compiler is faster. This still needs confirmation, though,
because your results show 32-bit being slower, but you didn't say
whether antivirus was off.<br class="">
</p></div></blockquote></div><div>Compilation speed of FPC is typically memory bandwidth/cache limited. So due to using smaller data types it is obvious that the 32 bit compiler is faster.</div><br class=""></body></html>