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Profiling linkers
In the wake of Why is my Rust build so
slow?, developers from the mold
and
lld
linkers reached
out,
wondering why using their linker didn’t make a big difference.
Of course the answer was “there’s just not that much linking to do”, and so any
difference between mold
and lld
was within a second. GNU ld was lagging way
behind, at four seconds or so.