This one time, at band camp, Florian Weimer said: > * Russ Allbery: > > >> As I understand it, this is only the case on i386 - on other arches, > >> /usr/bin/perl links to libperl, although the modules don't. > > > > ...indeed. That's bizarre. Why is i386 different than all the other > > platforms? > > Performance penalty of PIC code due to register pressure, I guess. Is this a significant enough issue to live with the other issues this creates? I honestly don't know. It 'feels' like the right way to have perl compiled would be the same on all architectures, /usr/bin/perl linked to libperl, and the binary modules linked to libperl. I understand this may be a problem, I just don't know how big of one it would be. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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