On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > 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 ? Yes, since there are no new registers (you need one register for PIC addressing). Simon -- GPG public key available from http://phobos.fs.tum.de/pgp/Simon.Richter.asc Fingerprint: 040E B5F7 84F1 4FBC CEAD ADC6 18A0 CC8D 5706 A4B4 Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
