From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 28 11:44:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA14566 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 11:44:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hokkshideh.jetcafe.org (hokkshideh.jetcafe.org [207.155.21.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA14560 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 11:44:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hokkshideh.jetcafe.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hokkshideh.jetcafe.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA10799; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 11:46:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708281846.LAA10799@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0delta 6/3/97 To: Sean Eric Fagan Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shared libraries? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 11:46:54 -0700 From: Dave Hayes Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sean Eric Fagan writes: > 1. the position-independent code is much worse, performance- and size-wise, > than the non-PIC versions. On the x86, this is almost worst case, because > of the lack of general-purpose registers. Correct me if I am wrong (and you most undoubtedly will), but isn't this counter-intuitive to almost every other architechure out there? ------ Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< Freedom Knight of Usenet - http://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet "What's so special about the Net? People -still- don't listen..." -The Unknown Drummer