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To: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>
Subject: Re: shared libraries? 
Cc: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 16:32:14 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org>
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In message <199708281846.LAA10799@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> Dave Hayes writes:
: Correct me if I am wrong (and you most undoubtedly will), but isn't
: this counter-intuitive to almost every other architechure out there?

Generally, on most architectures PIC code is slower than non-PIC code.
At least on sparc, 68k, mips and alpha (as well as x86).  The
generally quoted number is 10%.  That's what various docs that I've
seen over the years have quoted.  That's one reason why many
benchmarks are done with static binaries...

Warner