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A lot of the “slowness” of MUSL is the default allocator. It can be swapped out.

For example, Chimera Linux uses MUSL with mimalloc and it is quite snappy.




That's a great combo. I like LLVM libc in overlay mode with musl beneath and mimalloc. Performance is excellent.




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