Did I miss the answer to my question, which was,
What was the optimization level for the FPC test?
And, was the test run without the debugger present?
At the end of the day, unless the Java JIT is producing better asm code than FPC's AOT asm code, then FPC should be faster.
It just seems to be an optimization question to me. Im also not up on the latest asm code, so, maybe Java JIT is using opp codes which are only available on modern PC's?
Were as FPC will run on my 10 year old clunker.