On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 02:27:45PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Will Newton wrote: > > [PIC or not PIC] > > > I understand the need for PIC, but I was asking whether or not compiling > > whole binaries with PIC unnecesarily might be a bad thing. e.g. if I cannot > > control the granularity of compiler options easily in a build system and I > > build an executable with -fPIC in order to build an accompanying library > > correctly, am I trading off speed or footprint to any significant degree? > > On most architectures, it doesn't really matter except for heavy > mathematics and 3D. The only exception is i386, where the performance > decrease is actually measurable.
Do you really mean "i386", or do you mean "ix86"? Is there a performance hit with -fPIC on Pentium II/III/IV ? Curiously yours, -Steve -- by Rocket to the Moon, by Airplane to the Rocket, by Taxi to the Airport, by Frontdoor to the Taxi, by throwing back the blanket and laying down the legs ... - They Might Be Giants
