On Fri, 21 May 2004, Edin Kadribasic wrote: > On Friday 21 May 2004 20:25, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > What is the incentive to build it static? Performance? If you simply > > build a non-pic shared library there is no performance benefit at all. > > In fact, we should probably consider making this the default on platforms > > that support non-pic shared libs as our libs aren't general-purpose shared > > libraries, they are very much single-purpose libs designed to just be > > linked into a single binary. > > 1. You cannot simply build non-pic shared library.
If we changed our default to non-pic it would be trivial. > 2. For debugging purposes having .so's suck. It's only marginally more inconvenient. You can always just preload them and then you won't be able to tell the difference at all. -Rasmus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
