Andrey Rahmatullin <[email protected]> writes: > It's not "contra-productive". It may cause some performance decrease in > some cases, but benefits are more important than that.
In particular, having to do text relocations during dynamic linking means that the text segment has to be read/write, which interferes with some security hardening measures that are generally more important than the marginal performance benefit one might get from not using PIC. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
