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Mold 2.33 Adds New Flag To Further Speed Up The Linker


Mold 2.33 is out as the newest version of this high speed linker as an alternative to the likes of GNU Gold and LLVM LLD

Mold 2.33 is out as the newest version of this high speed linker as an alternative to the likes of GNU Gold and LLVM LLD. "By default, mold creates a separate debug file in the background after creating a main output file, so that you can start running the executable as soon as possible while mold is still working on linking its debug info sections. Shaving off a full second in quick edit-rebuild-run cycles should improve programmers' productivity."

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