Re: Scrolling performance

[Mark Leisher <mleisher crl nmsu edu>]

Roo wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:52:40 -0600, Mark Leisher wrote:
>
> > Roo wrote:
> > > %configure --with-xinput=xfree --disable-gtk-doc --without-pic
> > Another configure annoyance. The command line parameter to disable
> > shared code is typically --disable-shared. I don't recall having seen
> > --without-pic before.
>
> It is there in the configure script.
>
> # Check whether --with-pic or --without-pic was given.
>
> if test "${with_pic+set}" = set; then
>   withval="$with_pic"
>   pic_mode="$withval"
> else
>   pic_mode=default
> fi;
> test -z "$pic_mode" && pic_mode=default

Hmm. I have no experience working with non-PIC code in shared libraries, 
so I'm unsure what the difference is. If you have success compiling with 
--disable-shared, some performance difference may be apparent.
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