Mold 1.0: the first stable and production-ready release of the high-speed linker
FWIW, the author is also the original author of LLVM's "lld" linker, and has written multiple C compilers.<p>That makes them the author of both of the two fastest linkers in existence, AFAIK. This person has a very impressive resume.<p><a href="https://github.com/rui314/mold/blob/main/docs/design.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rui314/mold/blob/main/docs/design.md</a><p><pre><code>  > "Concretely speaking, I want to use the linker to link a Chromium executable (~1.8 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."
</code></pre>
There is good discussion as well in this prior post, and Reddit thread with the author in it a while back:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26233244" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26233244</a><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/kxvw5c/mold_a_modern_linker/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/kxvw5c/mold_a_modern_l...</a>