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Date:      Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:34:33 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: libc size
Message-ID:  <3DC177B9.902060E7@mindspring.com>
References:  <20021030233106.32D292A896@canning.wemm.org> <3DC06EB1.CCF3B30D@mindspring.com> <20021031080105.GA77041@tara.freenix.org>

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Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Terry Lambert:
> > The PIC overhead is likely unavoidable.  I'd actually like to see
> > the "benchmark" run on statically linked PIC vs. non-PIC code, so
> 
> I remember that when I was working on Perl and the FreeBSD port (back in the
> early 5.000 days), having libperl shared was adding a fairly large
> overhead. "make test" ran in between 15% and 25% more time in the shared
> libperl case...

I'm talking about statically linking the PIC code, to differentiate
the PIC overhead from the shared library mechanism overhead.

-- Terry

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