Robert Wohlrab <robert.wohlrab@xxxxxx> writes: > Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> There is always a penalty for using -fPIC, because the code must be >> position independent. The usual penalty I've measured is more like 2 >> to 3%. A 5% penalty seems a trifle high, but certainly possible if >> your code uses a lot of global variables. >> >> It sounds like you have specific examples where the code is worse. If >> you post them we may be able to tell you whether it is possible to do >> better. > It can be found at http://bitbucket.org/richard42/mupen64plus-core/ but isn't > yet production ready due to the architectural changes. I was thinking more in terms of a small (10 to 50 lines) complete test case and the generated assembly code with and without -fPIC. That is, I didn't mean a large body of code which could take hours or days to analyze, I meant a specific example. Sorry for being misleading. Ian
