Linking is the slowest part of D's compilation process– can we use mold to speed it up?

[Petar]

On Wednesday, 24 February 2021 at 22:12:03 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 February 2021 at 20:48:49 UTC, Petar Kirov 
> [ZombineDev] wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 24 February 2021 at 20:05:17 UTC, Imperatorn 
>> wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 23 February 2021 at 14:41:59 UTC, James Lu wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Have you looked at gold or lld?
>>
>> From the readme file:
>>
>>> 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.
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> 👍
>
> We should indoctrinate this rui314 to use D! 😁

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