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Profiling linkers

Jan 03, 2022

6 min #rust · #release-engineering

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.