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Wild – A fast linker for Linux

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383 points hkalbasi | 2 comments | 24 Jan 25 16:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.398s | source
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throwaway106382 ◴[24 Jan 25 16:43 UTC] No.42814864[source]▶
> Mold is already very fast, however it doesn't do incremental linking and the author has stated that they don't intend to. Wild doesn't do incremental linking yet, but that is the end-goal. By writing Wild in Rust, it's hoped that the complexity of incremental linking will be achievable.

Can someone explain what is so special about Rust for this?

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1. dralley ◴[24 Jan 25 16:49 UTC] No.42814925[source]▶
I assume they're referring to thread-safety and the ability to more aggressively parallelize.
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2. compiler-guy ◴[24 Jan 25 16:55 UTC] No.42815000[source]▶
Mold and lld are already very heavily parallelized. It’s one of the things that makes them very fast already.