covector

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   by covector 3y ago

   lld has parallelism here and there, as well as ld64. I do believe ld64 is technically the first linker that started parsing object files in parallel. Parallel linking was conjectured impossible for a while without breaking static archive se
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   Mergeable libraries [video](developer.apple.com)

   165 points by covector 3y ago|87 comments
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   by covector 3y ago

   Documentation at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/configuring-...
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   by covector 3y ago

   > ld64 is a fork of the old and slow GCC ld linker. ld64 was a complete rewrite, circa 2005, courtesy of Nick Kledzik. `opensource.apple.com` has still the old Changelog(s). https://github.com/rotten-apples/ld64&#x2
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   by covector 3y ago

   It looks like the gap between the two is very little (< 100ms) and the Apple linker performs slightly better than mold on large applications: https://twitter.com/SmileyKeith/status/1666168273199845377