Quote Originally Posted by User137 View Post
No, who wants to pay for his IDE when we have Lazarus?
My question was also about 64-bit performance in FreePascal (check my first post), so thanks for participating.

I actually thought there will be more performance benchmarks for FreePascal on 64-bit platform because it was available for quite some time now and there might be some similarities between 64-bit FreePascal and Delphi's compiler.

As for Delphi XE 2: on 32-bit platform using Single (with $ExcessPrecision flag turned off) is faster, while on 64-bit using Double is faster. However, I'd still complain that Extended type has been truncated to 64-bit. In some specific cases where you need extra precision, it was really useful.