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0 pointscyphar6y ago0 comments

Runtime performance. Musl has different performance characteristics to glibc (glibc uses thread-local pools for malloc, while musl uses locks).

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atomi6y ago· 2 in thread

> Starting with 1.1.9, musl’s dlerror state is thread-local and now matches the glibc behavior.

https://wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-differences-from-glibc...

NieDzejkob6y ago

dlerror is entirely irrelevant here.

atomi6y ago

In terms of what? Performance? Musl is more correct. Most people aren't serving Google or Facebook levels of requests. My only issue is with people choosing software purely based on performance.

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