> you most certainly do not "cut down on file load time."
Surely you must be joking eekee.
I know SSDs have made us all forget, but Disks (you know, those spinning piles of rust that most of us still have in computers to permanently store our bits on) are incredibly, painfully slow. Average times for any action on a disk are in milliseconds. That's millions of computational cycles.
I'm sure someone could invent a system where the dynamic linking process is slower than loading a static executable from a disk, but I've yet to find it. I'm also certain that our assumption that dynamic linking is always the way to go will be more and more challenged by the speed of SSDs, which are becoming much closer to RAM in speeds every day. But for today... no way.
Surely you must be joking eekee.
I know SSDs have made us all forget, but Disks (you know, those spinning piles of rust that most of us still have in computers to permanently store our bits on) are incredibly, painfully slow. Average times for any action on a disk are in milliseconds. That's millions of computational cycles.
I'm sure someone could invent a system where the dynamic linking process is slower than loading a static executable from a disk, but I've yet to find it. I'm also certain that our assumption that dynamic linking is always the way to go will be more and more challenged by the speed of SSDs, which are becoming much closer to RAM in speeds every day. But for today... no way.