* Neal H. Walfield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030120 19:10]: > > 3. > > Portability > > glibc:Portable to more than one Kernel and hence large > > BSD libc:Don’t attempt to be portable across kernels and hence > > smaller. > > I do not see the logic. If you are speaking about lines of code in > the distribution, I may agree, however, this does not speak to the > size of the generated binary, which seems to me to be what you are > referring to.
i understood him this way: glibcs *portability* is large, since it is not only portabel over several archs but also over several kernels. bsds libc is less portable (only accross different archs) so its portability is smaller.