> Would you really expect it to take 37 seconds to dynamically link
> this program?  The benchmark isn't all that large.

No, i guess that is a bit silly.  8-)

one should also note that there can be a significant loss of spatial
locality with shared libraries, depending on what the program is doing
(and i dunno what the dhrystone benchmark does).  Still, it shouldn't
make that much of a difference.  that's a very odd statistic...



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