Mold 2.31 Now ~10% Faster When Linking Very Large, Debug Info Enabled Binaries
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Most prominent with Mold 2.31 is up to 10% faster for linking very large, debug-info enabled executables. The release announcement explains:
"mold is now up to 10% faster when linking very large, debug info-enabled executables such as Blender (~1.8 GiB) or Clang (~3.8 GiB), thanks to several improvements we've made to the string merging algorithm."
Mold 2.31 also now supports "-z start-stop-visibility=hidden", "-Bsymbolic-non-weak" and "-Bsymbolic-non-weak-functions" are now supported for better LLVM LLD compatibility, and a variety of bug fixes.
Downloads and more details on the Mold 2.31 linker changes via GitHub.
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