ld-linux and ld-funcs thoughts

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On 29 May 2007, sfora dim told this:
> why do everything from scratch ?  just for efficiency sake ?

That's not a `just'. Efficiency is *critical* for the dynamic linker,
because its overhead gets incurred on every exec() of a dynamically
linked program, far more often than the linker is run. (Robustness is
arguably more important, too.)

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