[BugBrother]

My point was that with dynamic libraries at fixed memory addresses, dynamic linking information can be cached (as long as no binaries are updated). That would imply similar efficiency as for static libraries.

Sorry if I wasn't clear.

[lmz]

Isn't that what prelinking[1] does?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelink

[BugBrother]

Thanks. He, a bit after I stopped doing "real" work and went scripting. :-) :-(

Sometimes I regret that, but then I think of the repeated reading of the Effective C++ books. Not to mention the writing of C for a week which I could throw together in hours in Lisp or Perl.

[ithkuil]

furthermore the most dramatic issues arise with C++ vtables, although even that has been addressed with prelinking and a large address space helps a lot.