On 2 July 2017 at 19:19, Daniel Micay via arch-dev-public <[email protected]> wrote: > Using -fno-plt would be a nice tiny little performance boost at runtime > but then it's important to make sure everything is compiled with -Wl,- > z,now and there might be programs ignoring LDFLAGS but respecting > CFLAGS. Ideally -z now would be the default in the linker first. If we > aren't going to patch the default, then I think a configure flag for > that needs to land upstream.
It's also worth noting that clang does not support the -fno-plt option and I couldn't find any discussions about adding support for it. If it's only a tiny performance improvement, I strongly believe we should skip it for now.
