Docker images: Alpine and new architecture support

[Guillaume Quintard]

Replying to all this time

On Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 08:48 Guillaume Quintard <guillaume.quintard at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 3:31 AM Geoff Simmons <geoff at uplex.de> wrote:
>
>> Can you (or anyone) share some info about how well Varnish performs with
>> musl libc?
>>
>
> Good question, and unfortunately, I don't have a good answer in return as
> I haven't benchmarked it, so feedback is more than welcome.
>
> What I can comment on is that musl is quite adamant about being standard
> and pure, so it will hopefully be more portable and will let compilers do
> more work. As you mentioned, we've had issues in the past compiling and
> testing with it, but it should be all behind us now:
> - there were some header issues that prevented us from compiling, but we
> fixed that a couple of years ago
> - libbacktrace isn't available on Alpine, which prompted the move to
> libunwind (can we make it the default now?)
> - it has help fix a few compiler warning issues lately
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Guillaume Quintard
>
>
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