Because most files in QEMU are grouped into static libraries, Meson conservatively
compiles them with -fPIC.  This is overkill and produces slowdowns up to 20% on
some TCG tests.

As a stopgap measure, use the b_staticpic option to limit the slowdown to
--enable-pie.  https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/7760

 will allow
us to use b_staticpic=false and let Meson do the right thing.

Reported-by: Ahmed Karaman <ahmedkrmn@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20200924092314.1722645-57-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201007160038.26953-2-alex.bennee@linaro.org>