it's somewhat ironic that virtual memory essentially *eliminates* the need for relocatable executables.
on paper, we could just go back to .COM files for Windows programs, because you'd just place every program at the same address in their own virtual memory space, and you'd only need address relocation for libraries.
on paper you could do the same for libraries if you just had a memory space per library, but this would be pretty slow and in many ways impractical.
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