I guess the real question I want an answer to is which is the best libc? Rob obviously has his opinions, and I'd like to hear them. No doubt others on this list have their useful opinions to.
For my purposes small, fast, high quality, pick three. Working across multiple operating systems would be great, but happy to reduce that to Android, Linux, Windows, maybe Mac and iOS as well. POSIXish FTW. Assembler usually gets my nod for small and fast, anything I ever wrote in what ever assembler was needed for a given project was always smaller and faster. But yeah, that means writing assembler for a bunch of CPUs. On the other hand, most seem to be switching to 64 bit only, so I could cut that list down to x86_64 and ARM 64 bit. RISC-V has my attention, but it's not ready yet for me to poke at it. For bonus points, a good collection of the usual algorithmic stuff. Currently using qlibc https://github.com/wolkykim/qlibc but open to changing. My big personal project is rewriting OpenSim, a 3D virtual world server, in other words most of what this new "metaverse" thing claims is coming in the future, but has been around for over a decade. Rewriting it in C, assembler, and Lua. The problem is it's huge, and simulating worlds involves lots of tiny details. My proposed solution is to not write everything, but tack on other peoples libraries. The problem there is that I add a dozen libraries, I get a dozen implementations of basic things like linked lists and dictionaries. Lua for example has it's tables, which are a dictionary plus extendable array. But the only way they publish to use that in C is via their horrid stack based thingy. That's a pain to use from C, you have to make a function call to pass each parameter, a function call to do the thing, then another function call to get the results. With potentially more function calls to get through the C <-> Lua data conversions. Not good for "I just want to use a dictionary from C". -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world. _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
