The problem is that most default linkers don't scale well with core count, and throwing hardware at the problem is kind of a waste of money since single core ex

The problem is that most default linkers don't scale well with core count, and throwing hardware at the problem is kind of a waste of money since single core execution speeds only present marginal gains. If you use a linker like mold instead of ld you'll see orders of magnitude higher performance. Also throw the guy a few bucks if you're on MacOS