Lazy binding isn't without downsides, it requires internal synchronization of its own, which means it's possible to write multithreaded programs that will suffe

Lazy binding isn't without downsides, it requires internal synchronization of its own, which means it's possible to write multithreaded programs that will suffer latencies due to lock contention during symbol resolution. Depending on OS (not sure this applies to Windows), it can also mean what used to be fatal startup errors are delayed long into process life