Static linking vs dynamic linking

Question

Are there any compelling performance reasons to choose static linking over dynamic linking or vice versa in certain situations? I\'ve heard or read the following, but I don\

Answer 1

Static linking includes the files that the program needs in a single executable file.

Dynamic linking is what you would consider the usual, it makes an executable that still requires DLLs and such to be in the same directory (or the DLLs could be in the system folder).

(DLL = dynamic link library)

Dynamically linked executables are compiled faster and aren't as resource-heavy.