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Mold 2.36 Linker Brings More Optimizations & Compatibility Improvements


Rui Ueyama released Mold 2.36 as the newest update to this open-source linker that aims to deliver maximum performance at all costs.

Rui Ueyama released Mold 2.36 as the newest update to this open-source linker that aims to deliver maximum performance at all costs. New performance optimizations for Mold 2.36 benefit ARM and PowerPC with linking Clang 19 now being around 7% faster on ARM64, for example. Mold 2.36 also has a number of bug fixes and compatibility improvements -- mostly for alternative architectures like RISC-V, LoongArch, and s390x.

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