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One I think people forget about is ASLR. What symbols are you going to shuffle? At least with dynamic linked dependencies the linker can just shove different shared objects into different regions without much hassle.

Other have mentioned the other points: runtime loading (plugins), CoW deduplication and thus less memory and storage.




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