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Re: difference between 32 bit and 64 bit .so


On Friday, July 23, 2010 01:59:04 Alan Modra wrote:
> It would be better to wonder why we still support non-PIC libraries on
> 32-bit x86.

because the performance penalty is larger than many people are willing to 
accept.  there certainly are real world applications where larger memory 
footprint (due to textrels) are completely worth the speed gain.

for example, the php devs have done benchmarking in this area with apache and 
actually default to non-pic on x86.
-mike

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