No, just bootup and general responsivness of the system. Software is still compiled by the ssme compilers used in other distros. Everything is not magically faster.
Though on the musl build, yeah, it is faster. Trouble is, you can't run glibc software on it. Through chroot, yeah, but natively, no.
OK, I have to admit, i kinda fell for it 😂.
The syntax is a bit different, but everything else, more or less the same. In fact, if you just wanna repackage a deb or an rpm, it's even easier than in Arch, xbps-src can handle deb and rpm automatically, it detects dependencies and does repackaging on it's own. You basically just have to feed it the deb/rpm file in a one liner, that's it.
I should probably give an example. Here is the template file (they're called templates in Void) for Viber. You basically just feed it the deb, do a vcopy (copy operation specific to xbps-src) and that's it, everything else regarding the repackaging is done automatically by xbps-src.
Lol, that's normal in Arch, Void, Gentoo, LFS.
Almost every proprietery software there is out there has only Debian/Ubuntu packages, yet we run them in Arch, Void, Gentoo... as long as the dependencies are there, it doesn't matter what distro you run the software on.
Repackaging is easy though with xbps-src.
Void runs even faster, I've tried (on an older RPi, but still).
Some patches are there for software that reauires systemd or parts of it.
Not just musl, software that depends on systemd (or parts of it) as well.
We also need to patch binaries as well sometimes 😁. It is fun though, cutter and/or iaito are great tools.
Yes, there are basically 2 builds for every architecture. One is glibc, the other is musl. I haven't used the musl builds that much, just toyed with them a few times (mainly because of lack of software), but if you only use open source software that doesn't specifically depend on the GNU toolchain, yes, you can daily drive it, no doubt there. And yes, it is faster than the glibc builds.
No, I just don't like systemd. It's bloated and full of bugs. Just because almost every distro out there uses it, doesn't mean it's good.
Runit is even easier than doing things in systemd.
It really is that easy. Runit is probably the simplest init/service manager there is out there.
Closing handles on services that for god knows what reason, just hang. Also stopping and starting services again doesn't always work as intended.