"I know on darwin, we kinda hate those sorts of relocations because they are a performance sap. This type of performance sap is nasty as it is pervasive and in

"I know on darwin, we kinda hate those sorts of relocations because they are a performance sap. This type of performance sap is nasty as it is pervasive and invisible and hard to ever get back." -- Mike Stump (gcc-patches ML, 2012) I think the Solaris linker took some interesting approach with shared libraries at runtime as well.