Does prelinking a GPLed binary to various libraries on the system, to optimize its performance, count as modification?
No. Prelinking is part of a compilation process; it doesn’t introduce any license requirements above and beyond what other aspects of compilation would. If you’re allowed to link the program to the libraries at all, then it’s fine to prelink with them as well. If you distribute prelinked object code, you need to follow the terms of section 6.
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