[CrackMonkey] them's fightin' words

[Don Marti]

Dan Bernstein?

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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 17:31:08 +0100
From: Dave Green <tips at spesh.com>
Subject: NTK now, 2001-06-01
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         The best Free Software projects have two attributes in moderation:
         complexity and competition. Oh, and comprehensibility. Oh, and
         coolness. And compactness. Well, anyway, we think that the current
         friendly tussle between UCLIBC and DIETLIBC is producing all these
         wonders; both look great projects to mess around with. Here's the
         plot: glibc is now about as bloated as can be, and really not usable
         for bootdisks and embedded systems. What could be more fun than
         reimplementing the 90% of it that's needed for most programs, and
         super-optimizing it as much as you can? uClibc is the classic old 
         Linux project turned corporate-sponsored contender, pulling most
         enthusiasts along in its wake. DIETLIBC is the new, slightly
         idiosyncratic, Dan Bernstein-ish implementation, with some shiny
         coolness (regexps, spirited pleadings not to port to Windows), and
         some philosophical omissions (it's not a shared libe yet, although it
         could easily be). Both are in a virtual spiral of development; both
         have just reached the stage of being linkable to most programs, and
         there's still fun to be had tweaking them further.
         http://cvs.uclinux.org/uClibc.html
                                                           - big math
         http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/
                                                     - pthreads! dns!

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