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So the inverse--could an OS distribution like alpine profit from using picolib instead of musl? What would be the tradeoffs (presumably performance for size, bu

So the inverse--could an OS distribution like alpine profit from using picolib instead of musl? What would be the tradeoffs (presumably performance for size, but to what degree)?

simcop2387 7y ago
Along with performance, there's probably other ABI issues and maybe even API extensions to the C library that just aren't present in these tiny implementations. You can work around the ABI stuff by recompiling with the new c library of course, but that won't work if you've got a closed source binary or if the software needs something not provided.