Fundamental defect of the concept of shared libraries

[John F Haugh II]

In article <209 at titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta at necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
>The call overhead is six extra cycles with typical RISCs, whenever an
>inter-object-file (not inter-library) call-return takes place. It is
>not negligible when we are heavyly doing something like strcmp().

The CPU overhead to field an unneeded page fault caused by too many
statically bound executables will dominate your little 6 cycle hit
the first time it happens.  Trust me.  I'd rather have a slightly
slowed down, CPU bound process, than a system thrashing about all
day and night because it doesn't support shared libraries.
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