> Also, from https://wiki.debian.org/Haskell/GHC I noticed that GHC v8.2 > uses ld.gold on most of the architectures (including amd64 and i386) > whereas GHC v8.0 uses ld.gold only on arm*. Is this an intentional > change? I was under the impression that we wanted to migrate away from > ld.gold (given how buggy has been so far).
Here is some explanation: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/master/users-guide/8.2.1-notes.html#compiler There were also some fixes to problems with gold linker and many people testified it's much faster than the system one.
