Subject: Re: NetBSD 2.0 Dynamically Linked?
To: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@NetBSD.org>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/04/2004 11:55:40
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 02:25:21PM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> No, dynamically linked binaries are loaded (much) slower than statically 
> linked ones, since symbol resolution is usually taking quite a lot of time. 

Wasn't there something about a sort of preresolving of shared library
symbols in the binary, so symbol resolution would be fast until the
shared library changed? Care to teach me what that was all about?

Cheers,

Patrick