wild-linker/wild
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A very fast linker for Linux and WebAssembly
9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 4 stories, 5 comments · first 2024-03-29 · latest 2025-11-04
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…There's also the wild linker - see https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wild-Linker , https://github.com/davidlattimore/wild and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42814683
comment by canucker2016 · 2025-11-04 · in Linkers (2007) -
…linking in any of the major linkers. Wild linker is working on becoming the answer to this: https://github.com/davidlattimore/wild
comment by ComputerGuru · 2025-10-04 · in Zig builds are getting faster -
…and this, the linker space appears to be going through a renaissance. No kidding. There are also https://github.com/davidlattimore/wild and https://github.com/kubkon/bold .
comment by dmit · 2025-09-22 · in Zig got a new ELF linker and it's fast -
Looks like he's been continuing to work on it. GitHub repo: https://github.com/davidlattimore/wild List of his blog posts, a couple of which are about wild: https://davidlattimore.github.io/
comment by DylanSp · 2024-11-15 · in Speeding up the Rust edit-build-run cycle -
…As mentioned in the article there are ways to bring this down if you can accept the trade offs. https://github.com/davidlattimore/wild https://github.com/davidlattimore/duplicate-function-checker
comment by tbillington · 2024-06-06 · in Speeding up rustc by being lazy