Don't use musl if you care about performance
- By Jonathan Ellis — 27 Aug 2026 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 well.
- Self contained binaries with a single implementation backing them?
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- By Jonathan Ellis — 27 Aug 2026 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 well.
- Self contained binaries with a single implementation backing them?
Sources: Brokk