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

[Jonas Maebe]

On 04 May 2010, at 14:05, Jonas Maebe wrote:

> On 04 May 2010, at 13:58, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> 
>> On Linux, there was a major difference between i386 and x64_64
>> compilers when running a "make cycle'. But I admit that my last test was definitely from before 2.4.0.
> 
> "make cycle" not only tests the speed of the compiler code, but also of process launching, make, the shell, and a bunch of other external utilities.

And, since you are compiling native compilers rather than cross-compilers in this case, its speed also depends on
a) the number of source files in the compiler for a particular architecture
b) the number of RTL units for a particular architecture


Jonas