From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 31 10:36: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB5CB37B401 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:36:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net (conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41E4F43E42 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:36:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0203.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.203] helo=mindspring.com) by conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 187KAa-0002bq-00; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:35:52 -0800 Message-ID: <3DC177B9.902060E7@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:34:33 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ollivier Robert Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libc size References: <20021030233106.32D292A896@canning.wemm.org> <3DC06EB1.CCF3B30D@mindspring.com> <20021031080105.GA77041@tara.freenix.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message