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by peter_d_sherman 1961 days ago
This seems to be a little bit related to this quest for fast compilation:

The "mold" linker:

https://github.com/rui314/mold

>"Concretely speaking, I wanted to use the linker to link a Chromium executable with full debug info (~2 GiB in size) just in 1 second. LLVM's lld, the fastest open-source linker which I originally created a few years ago, takes about 12 seconds to link Chromium on my machine. So the goal is 12x performance bump over lld. Compared to GNU gold, it's more than 50x."