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Diversity in the ecosystem, possible reduction in memory footprint, ability to discover and fix issues in upstream projects that musl-based distros don't curren
by zv-io 3y ago
Diversity in the ecosystem, possible reduction in memory footprint, ability to discover and fix issues in upstream projects that musl-based distros don't currently package, motivation to support CUDA (and other) runtimes that explicitly target glibc, unlock possible sources of funding to pay developers to work on these areas.
The ability to audit a smaller codebase could be compelling for some sensitive environments.
There is not an urgent or immediate problem with glibc in the HPC space, per se.
- Retr0id 3y agoDo you have any benchmarks etc. that compare performance of HPC workloads on glibc vs musl?
- zv-io 3y agoIn progress. We have access to an ARM-based supercomputer and are actively collaborating with scientists who have access to x86_64 systems. It will be a while before we have results to publish. We need to be diligent in our testing methodologies.
- solarengineer 3y agoHave you published your testing methodologies?