Linkers (2007)
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The post discusses a series of articles on linkers from 2007, sparking a discussion on the evolution of linkers and the emergence of new, faster linkers like LLVM's lld and mold.
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LLVM's lld linker is typically faster. see https://llvm.org/devmtg/2017-10/slides/Ueyama-lld.pdf and https://lld.llvm.org/
The developer behind the lld linker then developed the mold linker - see https://github.com/rui314/mold and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34382908
There's also the wild linker - see https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wild-Linker, https://github.com/davidlattimore/wild and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42814683
Linkers, part 1 (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9597406 - May 2015 (7 comments)
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