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Hi folks,

Before I spend awhile trying to implement a modular system using 
dlopen(), does anyone know roughly what kind of performance overhead 
dlopen() creates on a Mac OS X system (or in fact any BSD based UNIX)?

The kind of use I need to use it for is fairly performance critical 
(mainly latency) and I would hate to spend ages getting a system up and 
running only to find out that it is too slow to do what I want.

Thank you for any input.