Apple Releases New Static Linker
In my dream world 64 bit OS, every program would be statically relocated at install time. It would permanently have assigned its own segment of the global system address space. Every library it depends on would also have a permanently assigned segment of the global address space.<p>Also at install time the application would run all its initialization steps including GUI object allocation, with GUI object handles permanently assigned in their own segment of a global address space. The linked and initialized state of the application would be stored. Then launching the application would be more similar to a resume-from-suspend operation: memmap the pre-initialized state into its already reserved segment of address space and reactive the frozen gui objects.<p>Probably I'm naive: I've never built any of this kind of low-level OS stuff. But I really do think there is room to re-envision some things which were decided in the 1970's based on constraints of 1970's hardware.