Description
Reasons for:
- Performance. According to this reddit message, musl caused a program to run 9x slower. Musl is also known to be slower in certain configurations in C. This varies a lot with the use case and some might even see a performance increase with musl.
- Smaller docker containers using
FROM scratch. example using musl
It is possible to link glibc statically as demonstrated here.
From what I can tell, on the user facing side, this would be enable using -C target-feature=+crt-static as described in the reference.