> L1/2/3 are CPU caches, not SSD. Why did you omit the reference to "file system"? Are we supposed to ignore the fact that a linker's main job is reading obje

> L1/2/3 are CPU caches, not SSD. Why did you omit the reference to "file system"? Are we supposed to ignore the fact that a linker's main job is reading object files and write the output to a file? I find this sort of argument particularly comical given a very old school technique to speed up compilation is to use a RAM drive to store the build's output.