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Debian switching to EGLIBC

Debian switching to EGLIBC

Posted May 6, 2009 20:04 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Debian switching to EGLIBC by drag
Parent article: Debian switching to EGLIBC

Yes. And the compiled code for it is perhaps 200 bytes. It's literally
just a bunch of printf()s. That, at least, is not worth forking over.


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Debian switching to EGLIBC

Posted May 6, 2009 20:09 UTC (Wed) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link]

Doh... That was a joke! I guess it contained too much truth for some :)

Debian switching to EGLIBC

Posted May 6, 2009 20:37 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I've seen people arguing exactly your joke, seriously, in the past. They
tended to be BSD people.

Some also argued apparently seriously that malloc() and dynamic memory
allocation in general was unacceptably inefficient. They preferred to
statically size *everything* and recompile when needed. This was
apparently more efficient, in some world...

Debian switching to EGLIBC

Posted May 6, 2009 20:45 UTC (Wed) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link]

Actually, yes, I'm with them on this one. Oh no, I should stop I think.

Debian switching to EGLIBC

Posted May 7, 2009 4:05 UTC (Thu) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link]

Probably HPC - we're an odd bunch.. ;-)

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