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Originally Posted by gan
Sure i understand and just giving my vote  But faster compression is a benefit i would say and i assume a 64 bit PA would support the creation of zip, zipx and 7z like the 32 bit edition. The ability to create RARs using PA would be great as well, but that's another discussion already to be found in other threads.
-gan |
it is possible to use 64bit compression and 32bit extraction for instance (in the same app)
whole idea that started the thread was that we thought we might add 64bit extraction of rars to PA 32bit, in the case it was faster... so we tested... and tested... and realizied it is not :-).
PA can not be fully 64bit until there is 64bit version of Delphi (maybe this year), but even then, apparently, it would make sense to actually test if some engine would do better with 32bit version.
Mixing 32/64bit is more work but if it makes things faster, why not.