Re: 64 bit data types

Ender wrote:
According definition Integer and Cardinal is generic datatypes which should become 64-bit.

I thought so too, but according to Danny Thorpe, Integer has only been guaranteed to be the most effective (not largest) signed integer type supported by the CPU. On x64 that is still a 32 bit integer, because 32 bit operations are generally faster that 64 bit operations even on these CPUs.
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