Re: INSTALL file
| From: | Sascha Schumann | Date: | Mon, 10 Jul 2000 19:07:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: INSTALL file | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.dev |
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, David Croft wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, David Croft wrote:
>
> > I've sent a patch to Zeev for this. He must be very busy though.
>
> Here is the patch if someone could please apply it.
>
> Also, I note there is a section "Why disabling -fPIC works on Linux", but
> it doesn't say what doing this is supposed to achieve?
Position independent code (PIC) is usually significantly
slower, but needs less memory (because it is shared among
multiple processes). PIC is the default when you build PHP as
a shared library (i.e. as an Apache DSO). The switch lets you
disable generating PIC.
- Sascha