Mold 1.2 High-Speed Linker Brings 32-bit Arm Support, Bug Fixes

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mold 1.2 High-Speed Linker Brings 32-bit Arm Support, Bug Fixes

A new version of Mold has been released, the high-speed open-source linker successfully challenging the likes of GNU Gold and LLVM LLD...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mold-1.2-Released

[onlyLinuxLuvUBack]

Let's get our mold on !

[Sin2x]

Rename it to Bold %)

[ZuseZ4]

I can't wait for them to get full Mac and Windows support. Even though I won't use it there, I currently feel like people are not too motivated to switch as long as it only supports half of the users. The linking time improvements are just too lovely (although that might diminish due to the increasing lto usage).

[brad0]

Lots of progress, but still a long ways to go.

[Vistaus]

Lots of progress, but still a long ways to go.

Yes, too little mold has cultured yet.

[er888kh]

I use it for rust code, and sometimes it makes a huge difference, especially in incremental builds.

[brad0]

I can't wait for them to get full Mac and Windows support. Even though I won't use it there, I currently feel like people are not too motivated to switch as long as it only supports half of the users. The linking time improvements are just too lovely (although that might diminish due to the increasing lto usage).

It's not like there is not already a better linker by the same person that alreadys supports all that.

[microcode]

Still laughing a bit at the DISGUSTING logo.

[rene]

wondering if it is time to use it by default on supported architectures? https://t2sde.org/packages/mold