On Wednesday, 18. April 2001 02:26, Roberto Alsina wrote:
> Reading http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT7436904154.html
> something caught my eye :-)

> applications, but the overhead of dynamic linking is saved. The downside
> is that applications refer to specific locations within the libraries, so
> the libraries cannot be changed without breaking all the applications to
> which they are linked.

IMHO this is a step backwards. (Like pre ELF times)

If you want to speed things up it is much better to improve the loader itself 
which is horribly slow on Linux and also experiment with a replacement for 
the rather verbose symbols. Maybe simple hashes instead of 
plaintext+c++mangling will help a lot while only sacrifying on readability 
but not on functionality.

Yours,
-- martin