From: Christian Neukirchen <chneuk...@gmail.com>
To: "Stefan Mühlinghaus" <"master..."@googlemail.com>
Cc: void...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: glibc vs musl - what is the difference for daily usage ?
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:58:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8vy8xlz.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c70d1273-79c1-41ae-9956-1f79b15e911c@googlegroups.com> ("Stefan \=\?utf-8\?Q\?M\=C3\=BChlinghaus\=22's\?\= message of "Tue, 16 Jun 2015 10:39:06 -0700 (PDT)")
Stefan Mühlinghaus <master...@googlemail.com> writes:
> I would be interested in that as well. Is there any *tangible* benefit in
> using the musl libc except having the warm fuzzies from using the leaner
> technology? :)
> I hesitate to switch to musl for fear of running into incompatibilities,
> but that could just be my superstitious self.
Just a few additions:
- MIT license, so you could build a GPL-free userland with it.
- Good support for static linking.
- Huge focus on correctness (which means in practice that sloppily
written software can break...).
- Good UTF-8 support.
- Support for new and experimental architectures.
Also see http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html
--
Christian Neukirchen <chneuk...@gmail.com> http://chneukirchen.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-17 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-15 17:08 Frankie Wild
2015-06-16 17:39 ` Stefan Mühlinghaus
2015-06-16 22:17 ` Chris Brannon
2015-06-17 9:58 ` Christian Neukirchen [this message]
2015-06-24 7:04 ` Frankie Wild
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