Re: musl - and menchmarking libc

[Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 11:00:06AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 9/5/2012 3:28 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > FYI: I just got pointed to musl - a smallish libc:
> > http://www.etalabs.net/musl/
> > 
> > It links to a comparison of libc versions and also to a benchmark:
> > http://www.etalabs.net/libc-bench.html
> > 
> > I didn't investigate further whether this is usefull but found it 
> > interesting enough to share,
> 
> Please put this on the wiki somewhere! :-)
> 
> e.g. http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/benchmarking/benchmarks

The framework and measurements are nice, but the quality and diversity
of the tests performed leaves a lot to be desired. I wrote most of the
tests as a tool for evaluating code I was actively developing for
performance and efficiency, so I'd certainly like to go back and add a
lot more tests without that bias, with broad coverage of libc
features, or find somebody else interested in working on expanding it
in that direction.

Rich