Don't use musl if you care about performance

I've spent most of my career working inside the JVM, with a sidebar of Python. So the first time I hit incompatible libc with containerized Bifrost, and GPT suggested musl as the solution, not only did I jump on it, I moved my other Rust projects to musl as
72 points by jbellis 54 days ago blog.brokk.ai 42 comments

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Switching to musl for Rust projects can lead to performance issues, especially if you’re used to working with the JVM or Python. The author’s experience highlights potential pitfalls and incompatibilities that could affect your containerized applications.

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