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by haberman 4500 days ago
> To be clear, loading data from disk takes milliseconds and re-computing addresses takes nanoseconds.

I think the literature surrounding prelink pretty strongly contradicts this assertion. See:

http://people.redhat.com/jakub/prelink/prelink.pdf

http://lwn.net/Articles/341305/

http://lwn.net/Articles/341309/