Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I don't think it will do much harm, but I don't think it will do much > good either. There will be some size increase with PIC, and that will > inevitably cause some slowdown. Some processors are better than others: > 32-bit x86 isn't so good with PIC. Hmm, I wonder why my objs seemed to mostly get smaller... Is PIC on x86-64 notably better than x86? -miles -- The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic. [James Marston Fitch, New York Times, 1 May 1960]