People say this but every test case I've seen has proven otherwise. Static binaries load much faster. Maybe it depends on the size of the libraries involved a

People say this but every test case I've seen has proven otherwise. Static binaries load much faster. Maybe it depends on the size of the libraries involved an the quality of the OS' dynamic linking machinery (supposedly OSX has better runtime dynamic linking startup times than linux), but at the very least it is conditional, not a pure win.