I worked @fzakaria on developing that idea. It actually worked surprisingly well. The benefits are mostly in the ability to analyze the binary afterward though rather than any measurable benefit in load time or anything like that though. I don’t have the repo for the musl-based loader handy, but here’s the one for the virtual table plugin for SQLite to read from raw ELF files: https://github.com/fzakaria/sqlelf

Forget elf, imagine having a SQLite file that stores elf, exe and DMG binaries. I would not mind working on something like this.

Or a replacement for Access

wonder if this would make hot-swap functions easier, if every function had its own section and every section was in the db