[mercury-users] shared libraries

[Fergus Henderson]

On 30-Nov-2000, Michael Day <mikeday at corplink.com.au> wrote:
> Hmm, so there's a performance hit for using shared libraries on Linux,
> because it requires the compiler to generate position independent code?

Yes.  This is true for all programming language implementations that
compile to Linux native code, although different implementations will
be affected to different extents.

> That's unfortunate. Is it less of an issue in hlc grade?

Yes, I expect so.  (I haven't actually tried benchmarking it, however.)

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