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gold is pretty fast. I don't have a source but those numbers seem very off to me. C compilers are fast. C++ much less so, but C++ is a different language.
by Sir_Cmpwn 8y ago
gold is pretty fast. I don't have a source but those numbers seem very off to me. C compilers are fast. C++ much less so, but C++ is a different language.
- jstimpfle 8y agoI tried to follow gold's author's series on linkers once but gave up. Now that I've written an ELF-64 writer and know a little more about linking I should give it another shot. In any case, I think I've heard of still faster linkers than gold, and at the time I also found gold's object oriented architecture (as it was described in the series) questionable.
- Orphis 8y agogold is sure fast compared to bfd.ld, but then you should try lld from the LLVM project which is much faster in general.