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Wild – A fast linker for Linux

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383 points hkalbasi | 5 comments | 24 Jan 25 16:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.829s | source
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pzmarzly ◴[24 Jan 25 16:55 UTC] No.42815005[source]▶
Ever since mold relicensed from AGPL to MIT (as part of mold 2.0 release), the worldwide need for making another fast linker has been greatly reduced, so I wasn't expecting a project like this to appear. And definitely wasn't expecting it to already be 2x faster than mold in some cases. Will keep an eye on this project to see how it evolves, best of luck to the author.
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estebank ◴[24 Jan 25 17:57 UTC] No.42815606[source]▶
Note that Mold has no interest in becoming incremental, so there is a big reason there for another linker to exist. I find it kind of embarrassing that MS' linker has been incremental by default for decades, yet there's no production ready incremental linker on Linux yet.
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1. Thorrez ◴[24 Jan 25 19:30 UTC] No.42816228[source]▶
I'm pretty sure that's a typo, and "incremental" was meant to be included in that sentence.
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2. estebank ◴[24 Jan 25 19:49 UTC] No.42816368[source]▶
Yes, indeed I accidentally forgot about incremental there.
3. bdhcuidbebe ◴[24 Jan 25 19:51 UTC] No.42816383[source]▶
Why so hostile? Have a break, go look at the clouds, they are beautiful today!
4. estebank ◴[24 Jan 25 19:52 UTC] No.42816389[source]▶
Yes, I missed a word. And I believe pretty much everybody else realized what I meant to say.

Feel free to point me in the direction of a production grade incremental compiler that can run on Linux, GNU or otherwise.

5. dang ◴[24 Jan 25 20:22 UTC] No.42816580[source]▶
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

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