I 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

I 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.