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pzmarzly ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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. paulddraper ◴[] No.42817268[source]
It has to be a candidate for the longest biggest gap in build tooling ever.