On 09/16/2010 03:25 PM, Miles Bader wrote: > 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... Hard to say. I'd have to look. > Is PIC on x86-64 notably better than x86? Yes. Andrew.