effect of -fPIC on code speed

Miles Bader miles@gnu.org
Fri Sep 17 06:25:00 GMT 2010


Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> writes:
> The -fPIC option inhibits code inlining, which is probably why you are
> seeing smaller object files.

Hmm, that's an unexpected side-effect... maybe the gcc documentation
should mention it?

-Miles

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