Whenever I hear about how loaders resolve symbols on Linux I am amazed that it works at all, and that it runs reasonably fast. The loader on Windows has a much

Whenever I hear about how loaders resolve symbols on Linux I am amazed that it works at all, and that it runs reasonably fast. The loader on Windows has a much simpler job - it imports specific symbols from specific DLLs. In many cases the importing is done by ordinal instead of by name, to make it even faster. I'm used to the Windows system so I don't miss the extra functionality that the Linux loader provides - in fact I find it scary.