[fpc-devel] I've asked this before, but perhaps I wasn't specific enough that time: what do I *personally*, specifically need to do to ensure that a native Windows 64-bit build winds up on the FPC website for the next release?

[Florian Klämpfl]

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> 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.

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.

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