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Ian started work on gold in 2006, before clang existed, and well before any work had started on lld. Gold was released publicly in 2008 and I believe used inter
by eklitzke 5y ago
Ian started work on gold in 2006, before clang existed, and well before any work had started on lld. Gold was released publicly in 2008 and I believe used internally at Google before that. LLD development didn't really get started until 2015 and wasn't really usable in large projects until 2016.
- CalChris 5y agoThere was an earlier 2012 LLD [1] but it was an atom-based monolithic ELF/COFF/Mach-O. Rui Ueyama's LLD kept the name (it's a good name) but maybe that's about it. It has separate ELF, COFF + Mach-O implementations but with a similar architecture. [1] https://llvm.org/devmtg/2012-04-12/Slides/Michael_Spencer.pdf https://llvm.org/devmtg/2012-04-12/Slides/Michael_Spencer.pd...
- Ericson2314 5y agoI mean if google had waited on starting gold. It was a time period before the dominance of LLVM but after doubts were growing about GNU tools; I am saying I am not at all surprised any tooling Google did from them would become abandonware.