Hello, I used the "normal" linker so I think what https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31688069/requirements-to-use-flto
says is true , one can use also the "normal" linker . Haven't checked for any performance (or other) improvements when using gold instead . Best regards, Matthias > On 2020-01-15 07:29, Volker Simonis wrote: > > Do you know if newer versions of GCC use the gold linker by default? I > > remember from some experiments which I did many years ago that gold > was > > considerably faster compared to the default ld linker. > > The default linker is system configured so it depends on your Linux > distro. The devkits generated by the current devkit makefiles configures > gold as default. > > /Erik >