On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:51:44 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'In January 2020, Trident rebased itself on Void Linux, which its developers found to be "the most BSD-like" of the potential Linux upstream distros they examined.'
I followed the included link <https://project-trident.org/post/os_migration/> to their rationale for this move. The irony of a monolithic BSD-type distro claiming to follow the “do one thing and do it well” philosophy seemed particularly amusing. That article in turn had a link to a comparison <http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html> of C runtime-system libraries, which is quite illuminating. While GNU glibc is certainly the biggest and (seemingly) most resource-hungry of them all, it does score well on some performance points, including memory allocation and multi-threading.