On Saturday, 5 April 2014 at 21:47:33 UTC, Asman01 wrote:
Today I've found a good alternative to slow gcc's linker: gold.
Written by Google in C++ it's a linker writen for large code
bases with C++ in mind. The author claims it's about 5 times
fast than gcc's one. It does support ELF only and UNIX-like
symtem I think it's enough to dmd on linux or am I missing
something? I believe it can reduce a lot dmd's compilation
speed on these system. It's under same GPL as gcc's ld. I
wonder if we can use it to make dmd still fastest. :)
It seems same case as Facebook needed a new C++ preprocessor
for its large code base.
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com.br/2008/04/gold-google-releases-new-and-improved.html
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/images/stories/pdf/lfcs2012_ccoutant.pdf
Dmd already uses whatever the system linker is and on Arch that's
gold. The Android NDK also uses gold by default, though they
also provide the original bfd ld and a newer llvm-based linker
started by MediaTek, mclinker:
https://code.google.com/p/mclinker/
