Interesting suggestion - basically treating a statically linked binary as a cache which is invalidated when any of the dependencies is updated, triggering eithe

Interesting suggestion - basically treating a statically linked binary as a cache which is invalidated when any of the dependencies is updated, triggering either proactive or reactive relinking. The disadvantage vs. dynamic linking is that you can't easily replace libraries on the fly. It is less flexible but it might actually be better for security. Dynamic linking could be emulated, albeit slowly, by relinking each time a program is launched. This would be slower but potentially useful for certain purposes such as debugging.