From: Einar Karttunen <ekarttun@...>
Date: 2002-05-06T20:10:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Java vs. Native trivia

On 06.05 20:04, Lars Christensen wrote:
> There is clearly some runtime bottleneck in the shared version which isn't
> in the static binary.  The shared version of ruby takes close to 50%
> longer to complete.
> 

The shared library contains position-independent code which is slower
than the code in the static library. See e.g. the help on -fpic from
the gcc help files.

- Einar Karttunen