[ThomasWinwood]

> Using a faster linker by default, e.g. Mold. Although I don't know whether there are portability or other issues here.

mold supports precisely one platform: x86_64 Linux. It also doesn't support linker scripts beyond what is necessary to link libc, and given the creator honestly suggested the suckless practice of editing and recompiling the source code as a possible replacement for them I have my doubts that it'll have a satisfactory replacement for, say, the things I'm currently doing. (Admittedly those things are in ARMv4T rather than x86_64, but still.)

[rui314]

mold supports not only x86-64 but also i386 and ARM64. And besides libc, it can link almost all user-land Linux programs already (I tested that by compiling all Gentoo packages with mold).

If you have to use a linker script for kennel development or embedded programming, mold doesn't work for you, though.