Doing a PIC on precompiled code is tricky, especially when you want to enforce a security model. Global caches perform reasonably well for many cases, and if y

Doing a PIC on precompiled code is tricky, especially when you want to enforce a security model. Global caches perform reasonably well for many cases, and if you can exclude the long tail and keep the common cases then you'll get okay performance. Combine that with static analysts to deal with the cases you can resolve at compile time and you do okay. I'm still a fan of PICs when used with a JIT, but I'm not sure they are always the right answer.