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Message: [QUOTE="Seebs, post: 4053084"] There exists a counterexample. BSD/OS had a dynamic linker with special hooks for fixed-position mapping of particular shared libraries. This allowed the C library to be a shared library, but to have a fixed location so that the usual dynamic linker fixups weren't needed, shaving a few instructions and cache hits off every call into the C library. .... But this is a pretty specialized case. (I did see the post showing Nilges making up crazy theories about why the wrapper wanted to be a C program, but I really don't see any point in trying to respond further; so far as I can tell, everyone *else* either understands what I said or doesn't much care about Unix-like environments.) -s [/QUOTE]