Comment by mwcampbell
Comment by mwcampbell 9 days ago
> I tend to feel that static linking is overrated.
For me, the big win of static linking is startup time. Just mmap the executable and go. No need to slow down the startup process with the very branchy process of resolving and loading DLLs.
That's true, although pre-linking means the bad old days of apps spending most of their time in the dynamic linker during startup are mostly behind us even when a program uses a reasonable number of libraries.