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My take away is that it's not a meaningful chart? Just in the first row musl looks bloated at 426k compared to dietlibc at 120k. Why were those colors chosen? It's arbitrary and up to the author of the chart.

The author of musl made a chart, that focused on the things they cared about and benchmarked them, and found that for the things they prioritized they were better than other standard library implementations (at least from counting green rows)? neat.

I mean I'm glad they made the library, that it's useful, and that it's meeting the goals they set out to solve, but what would the same chart created by the other library authors look like?



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