linking statically against dietlibc: a blocker?

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Tue Oct 3 22:52:43 UTC 2006


> rather than to the packager. Also I don't buy the efficiency argument: 
> glibc is used by every single executable in a Fedora environment, and 
> therefore is constantly in memory and hot in the cache. There should be 
> a powerful argument to link against something other than glibc, and a 
> faster startup time seems unconvincing.

Enrico tested the running executables and found those statically linked
against dietlibc to be faster.

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Pat




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