[suspended_state]

The linking stage could perhaps be performed at process launch by a privileged task?

See this comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494183

Isn't a virtual ISA like an intermediate representation? It doesn't have to include static addresses, only symbolic references, which could be resolved at launch time.

[cryptonector]

> The linking stage could perhaps be performed at process launch by a privileged task?

This gets expensive.