Comment 11 for bug 7655

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:02:06 +0200
From: Andreas Barth <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: PIC vs non-PIC

Hi,

I discussed this issue with Thiemo to get a bit more clue about what the
possible technical issues are.

1. non-PIC shared libs are completly broken e.g. on mips, as the ABI
just doesn't support it (it's the same more or less on all !i386 archs).
2. non-PIC means: If two programs use this lib in parallel, two
instances of the lib needs to be loaded. This can negate the performance
boost of the extra register by increased cache pressure.
3. non-PIC has one advantage over statically compiled: It doesn't
require a rebuild of depending applications if a security issue is found
in the lib.

Cheers,
Andi
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