Turkeys and dynamic linking

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Thu Nov 27 12:20:33 PST 2003


On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 15:15, walt wrote:
> And speaking of turkeys, does anyone know how Microsoft handles the
> performance issues associated with dynamic linking?  Do they do
> anything special, or just ignore the whole thing?

My understanding is that they perform a special linking/postprocessing
step which optimizes executables for fast runtime linking and loading.

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