On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Marc Lehmann wrote:
>
> This is long known.. I thought this was because
> elf-shared libraries were somewhat slower, but that cannot account
> for 50%...
>
> The mapping for elf is more complicated (isn't it?),
> but this, too, should not account for 50%...
>
> I doubt that gcc -S will help... gcc's output
> is not significant different when using a.out (unless
> you use -fpic also).
>
> Any ideas? I'd like to have an answer to this question..
> back in the i486 days, the difference was about 10%,
> and nobody cared... but 50% (66% in that case)
> is way to much!
>
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