Thomas Tanner wrote:
>
> On 21-Jun-99 Josh Vanderhoof wrote:
> > I wouldn't mind an option to compile without -fPIC. I hardly ever run
> > two programs that use Mesa at once, so I don't really care if the
> > library has some dirty pages. (IIRC, -fPIC is around 5-10% slower.)
>
> pic-code is faster for shared libraries.
> If you don't like pic-code, use the static library.
Umm, not exactly. PIC code loses a register and forces an extra jump in routines
which reference other symbols in the pic library. It is possible to build a
non-pic .so which is much more convient than linking to a static library -- you
can't say './linuxquake3 +set r_glDriver libGL.a', for instance. As Josh says
the non-pic libGL.so will be quicker by a noticable amount.
Keith
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