On 11/04/2011 23:52, Arkadi Shishlov wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:11:04 +0300, Christopher Friedt > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is anyone interested in having a look yet? I guess I could post it on >> gitorious as a layman overlay. > > What is the (long-term) technical advantage to use bionic, compared to > glibc and uclibc? >
I would like to hear some answers also. Google's top hit is: http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2008/11/six-million-dollar-libc.html That's some years out of date and can be summarised as: advantage is a bsd licence versus an lgpl licence. Also some speedup due to dropping support for c++ exceptions. Also in 2008 there was no TLS in uclibc (seems quite mature at least in current uclibc git) This does raise a good point - can "we" really work on getting uclibc next release out and stabilised as quickly as possible? It's a massive improvement over prior releases and even the unreleased git should become everyone's version of choice right now (for a certain definition of everyone). On x86 a very large proportion of software now compiles without obvious problems I'm using a trivial bump of the in tree ebuild to grab the current git uclibc and very pleased with it Cheers Ed W
