[PVFS-developers] Re: libpvfs

[Nathan Poznick]

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Thus spake Robert Latham:
> About all i know aobut -fPIC is that it's something Debian requires of
> all libraries :>  Just what *is* the performance penalty of making a
> library posistion independent? =20

Specifically, they require that all shared libraries be built with
-fPIC, and all static libraries be built without it.  So there's a
build-time penalty because you have to compile everything twice :)

I have no answer on the runtime penalty.  When it comes down to it,
that's all CPU register voodoo to me.

--=20
Nathan Poznick <poznick@conwaycorp.net>

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. - Benjamin
Franklin


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