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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. the_duke ◴[24 Jan 25 17:51 UTC] No.42815564[source]▶

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Rust has a pretty good incremental caching compiler that makes debug builds relatively fast.

Linking is often a very notable bottleneck for debug binaries and mold can make a big difference.

So interest in speeding up linking for Rust is expected.

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