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Re:Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro by nicoburns on Thursday March 10, 2022 @09:07PM (#30635298)
I believe musl’s allocator is known for being pretty poor.
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Re:Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro by ghotli on Thursday March 10, 2022 @10:24PM (#30635768)
musl-1.2.1.tar.gz (sig) - August 4, 2020

    This release features the new "mallocng" malloc implementation, replacing musl's original dlmalloc-like allocator that suffered from fundamental design problems.
https://inbox.vuxu.org/musl/20200518194204.GG21576@brightrai... Pretty good writeup from the author

https://musl.libc.org/releases.html Rest of the detail in the actual changelog is worth reviewing too

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Re:Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro by nicoburns on Friday March 11, 2022 @01:32PM (#30644034)
Sounds like my information is out of date!
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