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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness
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> Randomisation has nothing to do with C. In fact from a C perspective the
> compiler and linker do a lot of work to deal with ELF and loading code at
> arbitary addresses for dynamic linking and the like, not the user and
> not as language constructs. Perhaps the Lisp universe should wake up and
> meet the 1980s 8)

Uhm, C++ folks and others have run into loader performance issues due
to the way DSOs are handled. The problem is more severe in the lisp
context because a typical image contains hundreds of thousands of
small objects on startup.
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