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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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