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Re: musl - and menchmarking libc
- From: Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 18:06:30 -0500
- Subject: Re: musl - and menchmarking libc
- References: <2561267.143HaQd2NE@byrd>
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 09:28:57AM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> FYI: I just got pointed to musl - a smallish libc:
> http://www.etalabs.net/musl/
>
> It links to a comparison of libc versions and also to a benchmark:
> http://www.etalabs.net/libc-bench.html
>
> I didn't investigate further whether this is usefull but found it
> interesting enough to share,
I've updated the comparison table with a new section, "behavior on
resource exhaustion", which is an area where it would be nice to see
glibc improve a bit. So far it just contains a few areas where I'm
aware of problems in at least one libc, but I'm working to expand it:
http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html
Rich