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Re: Early adopters of symbol based dependencies needed



Florian Weimer wrote:
> * 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.

I seem to remember it was a threading issue, but I didn't manage to
track down an explanation.

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