Mold (linker) 1.0 released
Mold (linker) 1.0 released
Posted Dec 21, 2021 0:21 UTC (Tue) by flussence (guest, #85566)In reply to: Mold (linker) 1.0 released by LtWorf
Parent article: Mold (linker) 1.0 released
gold had significantly higher memory usage than GNU ld, didn't run all that much faster in the places I used it hoping for a speedup, and was sometimes buggy in ways that would manifest as its output binaries malfunctioning late into runtime which was a nightmare to track down.
And above all, we're talking about it in past tense because it's another abandonware Google product. Not a good look for an essential toolchain component.
