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The sold linker is no longer commercial software; it's been relicensed under the MIT license.
by rui314 2y ago
The sold linker is no longer commercial software; it's been relicensed under the MIT license.
- mhaehnel 2y agoBut it is no longer updated, is it? Thanks anyway for the work on sold.
- School-Cotton 2y agoSold was just mold under a commercial license. Mold is still maintained and now licensed permissively.
- mhaehnel 2y agoThat's true but mold doesn't have MacOS support.
- rui314 2y ago> But it is no longer updated, is it? Essentially, yes, but that’s because Apple’s new linker is so much faster than it was. You can use it instead.
- nicce 2y agoOut of curiosity, do you know what technical choices Apple made to be so much faster?
- oefrha 2y agoIt’s parallelized. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36218330 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36218330
- rui314 2y agoI don't know the details, but once it is proven that achieving lld/mold/sold-level performance is technically feasible, it shouldn't be extremely hard to achieve similar success for macOS.
- stefanos82 2y agoRui, if I ever get rich, I will seriously give you 1 million US dollars, $100K the minimum, for everything you have done so far, with all your projects. That's the least I can do to show my appreciation for your incredible work; I can't thank you enough brother! I also wish to see that chibicc compiler plus the book completed. I want to learn everything around such topics.
- rui314 2y agoThanks, I really wish you become a billionaire :)