New Features Coming For Glibc 2.26
Given our recent articles of Glibc enabling a per-thread cache for malloc and Fedora 27 will use glibc 2.26, you may be curious about some of the other features coming to this next version of the GNU C Library.
Besides the per-thread cache for malloc to help performance in some situations, other changes coming for Glibc 2.26 includes:
- Unicode 10.0 support.
- Glibc tunables are now enabled by default.
- Multiple improvemnets to the DNS stub resolver.
- Wrappers for new Linux system calls.
- 128-bit floating point support in the math library on x86/x86_64, IA64, and PowerPC64LE.
More details on these pending changes for Glibc 2.26 can be found via this NEWS entry. Stay tuned for more glibc 2.26 details in the weeks ahead.
Besides the per-thread cache for malloc to help performance in some situations, other changes coming for Glibc 2.26 includes:
- Unicode 10.0 support.
- Glibc tunables are now enabled by default.
- Multiple improvemnets to the DNS stub resolver.
- Wrappers for new Linux system calls.
- 128-bit floating point support in the math library on x86/x86_64, IA64, and PowerPC64LE.
More details on these pending changes for Glibc 2.26 can be found via this NEWS entry. Stay tuned for more glibc 2.26 details in the weeks ahead.
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