Big whoop. Everybody seems to care about the seconds spent compiling and building objects. While I commend the effort being placed in writing gold, it isn't a ld replacement (yet).
Also, speed is usually a (somewhat) function of feature set. While LLVM/Clang and gold might be shiny, new and fast, they do not carry the same feature set as their more mature competitors do.
People tend to forget that GCC is a thirty year old project. The amount of features and cruft collected is just astounding. I will happily benchmark LLVM/Clang 25 years down the road and compare it against a new shiny lightweight compiler.. (Oh.. the new is soo shiny and faaast. It can compile my kernel in 28 seconds instead of 30!).
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