On August 1, 2003 12:22 pm, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > 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.
I think this is a good idea, I've been manually doing the same thing on my servers by compiling cli & apache separately. Performance wise in my experience no-pic code is 25-30% faster on Linux. So far it worked perfectly and I had not experienced any problems. I see no reason why we cannot offer all PHP users the same performance advantages. Ilia -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
