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mold 🦠: A Modern Linker in Rust 🦀

95 mentions on Hacker News by 80 people: 28 stories, 67 comments · first 2020-12-13 · latest 2026-10-05

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  1. …13 (3.18 GiB): 64.12s | 5.82s | 2.90s Firefox 89 libxul (1.64 GiB): 32.95s | 6.80s | 1.42s [0] https://github.com/rui314/mold edit: add citation, info, times, link, will -> might, and formatting.
    comment by scns · 2022-03-10 · in Things I hate about Rust, redux
  2. > https://github.com/rui314/mold would suggest otherwise. Does it, though? I mean, if you read that link you'll notice it boasts the linker's performance by comparing it with cp and how it's "so fast that it is only 2x slower than cp on…
    comment by fivea · 2022-03-09 · in Apple M1 Ultra
  3. Osmos.io is built on Rust so that’s LLVM. No commercial vendor involved. There is Mold ( https://github.com/rui314/mold ) as an alternative but it doesn’t support MacOS yet and that’s a blocker for our team.
    comment by kiratp · 2022-03-09 · in Apple Mac Studio
  4. >Try mold Curiosity got the better of me: https://github.com/rui314/mold
    comment by petecooper · 2022-03-08 · in Apple M1 Ultra
  5. https://github.com/rui314/mold would suggest otherwise. Massive speedups by multithreading the linker. I think traditional linkers just aren't highly optimised.
    comment by nicoburns · 2022-03-08 · in Apple M1 Ultra
  6. …I would recommend anyone using an llvm based compiler, like rustc or clang, to give it a try. [0]: https://github.com/rui314/mold
    comment by c0balt · 2022-03-05 · in Beginners Guide to Linkers (2005)
  7. …speed-up (> 10x) for incremental debug builds of a large project with around 450 dependencies. [1] https://github.com/rui314/mold
    comment by djdjfhsje33edh · 2022-01-12 · in “Modern” C++ Lamentations (2018)
  8. …yet? FPC compiles insanely fast, but larger projects can still get caught up with the linker. [1] https://github.com/rui314/mold/tree/v1.0.0
    comment by fayten · 2022-01-06 · in The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 2.2
  9. …a more liberal license such as the MIT license. For now, mold is released under the GNU AGPL v3. https://github.com/rui314/mold/blob/main/LICENSE
    comment by jacobmarble · 2021-12-16 · in Mold 1.0: the first stable and production-ready release of the high-speed linker
  10. Lots of interesting things in the design document: https://github.com/rui314/mold/blob/main/docs/design.md
    comment by U1F984 · 2021-12-15 · in Mold 1.0: the first stable and production-ready release of the high-speed linker
  11. I think this is an interesting model: https://github.com/rui314/mold/blob/main/LICENSE I'm glad he's doing this as (A)GPL. It's great work and it's Free for the people. If you want the option for it to be private, feel free to step up and…
    comment by Mizza · 2021-12-15 · in Mold 1.0: the first stable and production-ready release of the high-speed linker
  12. …of both of the two fastest linkers in existence, AFAIK. This person has a very impressive resume. https://github.com/rui314/mold/blob/main/docs/design.md > "Concretely speaking, I want to use the linker to link a Chromium executable (~1.8…
    comment by gavinray · 2021-12-15 · in Mold 1.0: the first stable and production-ready release of the high-speed linker
  13. …engineers do. Until then, single core performance numbers will continue to matter for me. [1] https://github.com/rui314/mold
    comment by josephg · 2021-10-21 · in Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score
  14. That sort of depends: https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/92#issuecomment-879709...
    comment by bobbyskelton41 · 2021-07-26 · in BLAKE3 1.0
  15. …It's a very comfortable order of magnitude faster than gold, and starting to become pretty stable. https://github.com/rui314/mold
    comment by tux3 · 2021-07-18 · in GNU Binutlis 2.37 has been released
  16. 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…
    comment by peter_d_sherman · 2021-02-05 · in Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ On 64 Cores
  17. The guy who wrote lld is working on a new, faster linker here: https://github.com/rui314/mold
    comment by tekknolagi · 2020-12-13 · in Free Pascal