[fpc-devel] Win64 FPC is in wrong download location

Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.lists at gmail.com
Tue May 4 10:23:48 CEST 2010


On 4 May 2010 10:11, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> Because it has no advantage over a win32 executable (it is very unlikely
> that the compiler needs more than 2 or 3 GB and a native win64 compiler
> is slower due to bigger memoy footprint) and because it would require
> additional release preparations.


BTW:
So why is there a native 64-bit Linux compiler?  Shouldn't the same as
what you mentioned apply to the Linux platform too? [if not, then I
guess it's proof that the Windows platform is crap and slow. ;-)]



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