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vkazanov 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them

Glibc is a reliable generalist while most other ones specialise in something: single thread, multiple threads, slab, arena style, etc ..

Some of the other things disabled might be useful for distros in general, like ndebug assertions or compiling with debig symbols.

hyperman1 3 months ago [–]

Is glibc being generalist still true? I might be wrong here, but I had the impression it was open and free but behind most others,and e.g. tcmalloc is better on most criteria. Do we have benchmarks and comparisons for the generalist case?

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