On 21-07-2022 18:29, ( wrote:
Not all linkers support linker scripts, e.g. mold doesn't from what I've read because they make the linker slower.Would we really need to support anything other than ld, gold, and lld, though?-- (
We can choose to not package mold of course, but I think it would be a good idea to support mold, because it appears to be much faster than the others. Furthermore, I'd like to eventually switch to mold by default, because it's much faster. From the README:
mold is so fast that it is only 2x /slower/ than |cp| on the same machine. Feel free to file a bug <https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues> if you find mold is not faster than other linkers.
Program (linker output size) GNU gold LLVM lld mold Chrome 96 (1.89 GiB) 53.86s 11.74s 2.21s Clang 13 (3.18 GiB) 64.12s 5.82s 2.90s Firefox 89 libxul (1.64 GiB) 32.95s 6.80s 1.42s
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