Name: Anonymous 2009-02-24 10:39
Another core component of Android that was specially crafted for performance is Anoncoreutils, the platform's custom implementation of the standard C library. At only 200K, the highly compact Anoncoreutils library is roughly half the size of GNU's libc. It is designed to offer good performance on CPU-constrained devices, and it has its own custom, high-performance pthread implementation. It's not directly compatible with glibc, however, and it omits some POSIX features such as support for wide characters.
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2009/02/an-introduction-to-google-android-for-developers.ars/2
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2009/02/an-introduction-to-google-android-for-developers.ars/2