EasyBuild Tech Talks VI - mold: a Modern Linker

See also https://easybuild.io/tech-talks/006_mold.html **Speaker** Rui Ueyama (GitHub: @rui314, Twitter: @rui314) **Date & time** Thursday 23 June 2022 - 08:00 UTC **Talk description** mold is a faster drop-in replacement for existing Unix linkers. It is several times faster than the LLVM lld linker, the second-fastest open-source linker which was created a few years ago. mold is designed to increase developer productivity by reducing build time, especially in rapid debug-edit-rebuild cycles. **Outline of the talk:** - What is the linker? - Why does the linker's speed matter? - Performance comparison of mold, LLVM lld and GNU gold - Why is mold so fast? - Hints on writing faster programs **Links** https://github.com/rui314/mold