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glibc is only so bloated because of locale und unicode support. Also 32bit wchar_t and intl errors.

Adding better string functions or CPU-specific optims is nothing compared to that.

musl is mostly so small because it only does the C locale and basic unicode towlower. Nothing like the monstruous glibc unicode tables or internationalized error messages.



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