Re: [Modcaml] ld error when compiling

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 01:12:29PM -0500, Robert Fischer wrote:
> Yeah, that's what it's called, but the wiki just called it  
> "libcamlrun.so", and that was what was referenced in the  
> Makefile.config, so I went with that.  Is the only consequence of  
> calling it libcamlrun.so a performance hit due to the dynamic link, or  
> should I go back and try this approach?

The name shouldn't make any difference.

There is a (small) performance penalty from using a shared library
over a static library, but on x86-64 you don't have any choice in the
matter because of shortcomings in the Linux linker.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat