> - '.pplt' has resolved symbolic references, so there's no need to invoke
>   dynamic linker, ld.elf_so(1), for unresolved references as current
>   dynamic linking mechanism works. I expect we can get lots of time
>   savings here. 

this presupposes that shared objects will be loaded at the same
location from invocation to invocation, no?

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