davidlattimore

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   by davidlattimore 2y ago

   I'm not actually sure, mostly because I'm not really familiar with the Mold codebase. One clue is that I've heard that Mold gets about a 10% speedup by using a faster allocator (mimalloc). I've tried using mimalloc with
2. 2.▲
   by davidlattimore 2y ago

   Not yet. The Linux kernel uses linker scripts, which Wild doesn't yet support. I'd like to add support for linker scripts at some point, but it's some way down the priority list.
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   by davidlattimore 2y ago

   It sounds like you're building from scratch. In that case, the majority of the time will be spent compiling code, not linking. The case for fast linkers is strongest when doing iterative development. i.e. when making small changes to y
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   by davidlattimore 2y ago

   Unfortunately gcc doesn't accept arbitrary linkers via the `-fuse-ld=` flag. The only linkers it accepts are bfd, gold lld and mold. It is possible to use gcc to invoke wild as the linker, but currently to do that, you need to create a