Mold: A Modern Linker

I wonder how rui314's assertion that incremental linking is a poor tradeoff squares with Zig's decision[1] to build its own linker with "in-place binary patching". I assume part of the difference is that Zig has complete control over its environment, whereas Mold is trying to be a general-purpose linker, but still, I wonder if there's some insight to be gained from crosspollination there. (like, maybe Mold could have an "--incremental" option with associate documentation explaining that this option is only…

Before you start using this, be warned that the rug is about to be pulled out from under you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33584651 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33495528

>"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. I don't know if I can ever achieve that, but it's worth a try." PDS: I think it's…