program slower with .so lib

[xrismf]

Hello,

my 1st post =)

I was wondering if someone here can explain to me why a program that I wrote runs significantly slower when I link parts of the code as a static library instead of directly including the code in the project?

I assumed that function calls are resolved at compile time in both cases, so it really shouldn't matter if the code is right inside the project or in a separate static library file, or am I wrong?

I'm using g++ and Ubuntu/Linux 11.04, GCC4.5.

Kind Regards

[Disch]

It shouldn't matter unless the static lib was built with slower options (are you linking against the debug lib?)

[kev82]

Can you give a simple example of the code, how you compile it, and what the speed differences are?

.so is not static btw, it is shared.

[Moschops]

Now that it's been pointed out that a *.so is a shared library, not static, does it make sense to you? The majority of the work of linking is not done at compile time, but at loadtime or runtime.

[xrismf]

.so is not static btw, it is shared.

I confuse this all the time (but I tried both).

It shouldn't matter unless the static lib was built with slower options...

That was it, man, such an obvious thing... Anyway I am new to this so thank you all for your answers!