Guys, what do you think about defaulting the build to use -prefer-non-pic and having libtool build a non-pic libphp4.so when building the Apache DSO? That library isn't linked into other programs anyway, and Apache's fork+exec model ensures the pages will be shared regardless of pic. I don't really see what we gain by building it pic, and we certainly lose quite a bit by doing so. In the order of 15-20% execution time on both FreeBSD and Linux with gcc in my tests.
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