&gt; There&#x27;s a (minuscule) performance advantage to static linking.<p>Is that actually true? I would have thought networking latency overshadows any memory latency introduced in a `call foo@PLT` v. `call *(foo@GOT)`.<p>Are you aware of anyone who has benchmarked this? i.e. not a microbenchmark e.g. inside something like nginx?<p>If so, it might be worth fixing the dynamic linker: the cost difference is absolutely fixable, as it&#x27;s a tradeoff for sharing pages with other processes.