Le lundi 07 mai 2007 à 13:02 +0200, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > > Dropping most .a libraries is something I agree with. I see no reason > > why we should have them for most of the libraries. > > As a courtesy to our users. Statically linked programs are slightly > faster (since they don't need to do PLT lookups, so they spare a jump on > every function call to a shared object). For people for whom performance > is critical, providing .a libraries is a good idea.
Hm, I thought the double-jump issue was specific to i386. On other architectures, there is still the need for an extra register, but AIUI the performance impact should be much smaller. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.
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