> To be clear, loading data from disk takes milliseconds and re-computing addresses takes nanoseconds. I think the literature surrounding prelink pretty strong

> To be clear, loading data from disk takes milliseconds and re-computing addresses takes nanoseconds. I think the literature surrounding prelink pretty strongly contradicts this assertion. See: http://people.redhat.com/jakub/prelink/prelink.pdf http://people.redhat.com/jakub/prelink/prelink.pdf http://lwn.net/Articles/341305/ http://lwn.net/Articles/341305/ http://lwn.net/Articles/341309/ http://lwn.net/Articles/341309/