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The k family likes to be the whole stack; they would view libc as an unnecessary huge[0] dependency.

[0] To k, every other language/library/program is too big.



Seeing that libc is undoubtedly already loaded in memory as a dynamic lib on all systems, that doesn't make much sense. Moreover kdb+/q links to libc, and it has very good performance and memory usage.




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