On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:

: On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:45:40AM -0800, collver@linuxfreemail.com wrote:
: > http://devresource.hp.com/STK/impacts/i720.html
: >
: > ``Filtered Libraries: Filtered shared libraries divide up a large library
: >   into one filter and several implementation libraries. The user links

: 	I think you could probably do this by linking an empty library
: against each of the implementation pieces.  However, I'm not certain that
: ld.so doesn't load all libraries when the "filter" one is loaded.  (which
: would kill any performance gains)

Currently both a.out and ELF ld.so link all dependent libraries when a
program is loaded and/or dlopen() is called.  We support lazy symbol binding
with dlopen(), but not `lazy loading'.

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