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		LeFantome 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementat... A lot of the “slowness” of MUSL is the default allocator. It can be swapped out. For example, Chimera Linux uses MUSL with mimalloc and it is quite snappy.

jeffbee 10 months ago [–]

That's a great combo. I like LLVM libc in overlay mode with musl beneath and mimalloc. Performance is excellent.

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