Robert Clipsham wrote:
I hear GOLD is destined to replace ld, and is supposedly far faster. Your distro might have a repository for it, if not you'll have to compile it from source. It might also be worth profiling (go)ld while it's linking, and seeing where it's spending the most time. If it's spending a lot of time reading object files then the solution would be to combine some object files into one before invoking the linker, eg using dmd's -lib switch or passing all the files at once and using -of foo.o so only one object file is produced.
Robert's right, passing as many as you can on one command line with -offoo.o will result in one .o file, this should greatly speed linking.
