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mold supports LTO out of the box.

Thanks, I really wish you become a billionaire :)

I don't know the details, but once it is proven that achieving lld/mold/sold-level performance is technically feasible, it shouldn't be extremely hard to achieve similar success fo…

> But it is no longer updated, is it? Essentially, yes, but that’s because Apple’s new linker is so much faster than it was. You can use it instead.

The sold linker is no longer commercial software; it's been relicensed under the MIT license.

CRT object files which contain process startup routines are not in a fixed directory. Unfortunately compilers have to be hard-coded to contain an appropriate directory name.

It caused a flame war, so #1 factor is not negligible.

I could buy bikes too, but as you wrote that's not enough to make a living. This is my full time project. I could earn a mid 6 figure salary if I work for a big tech, and I think I…

It didn't work. If it is available as open-source, they don't _need_ a different license. Anyway, it's off-topic.

Author here. I'm amused that I opened HN thinking that https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kiW9qmNlJ9oQZM6r5o4_N54s... (which I posted today) might come to the front page and found…

I don’t know much about the European job market, but you can see lots of examples of US job positions and their salaries at websites such as https://www.levels.fyi .

I'm not sure if io_uring can improve mold's performance, as it has to access random locations while copying file contents to apply relocations. Currently, we mmap all input files a…

I'm just not a native English speaker.

That's not for you then, but some people have to rebuild Chrome-scale programs dozens of times a day, and mold is created for such people.

It can create Mac executables, but mold/macOS is still in pre-alpha and no one should expect it to work for their programs. Once it becomes out of beta, I'll release it as mold 2.0…

That's an even crazier goal which is probably 100x harder than writing a 10x faster linker. But I believe it's technically doable. At least, the world needs more crazy people who b…

I want to write a book about linkers so that the knowledge I earned during the development of the lld and mold linkers wouldn't lost, but I don't have enough time to do that!

None of gold, lld or mold can replace GNU ld entirely because they don't cover all features that GNU ld has.

I didn't take it as an offense, so don't say sorry! I just wanted to say that if a senior dev wants to earn $1M in a few years, they can just find a job and do whatever assigned to…

I don't have a plan, and that's not what I can plan. They can plan in theory, but I believe that's very unlikely to happen.

It's being discussed ( https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/117 ) but haven't reached any conclusion. The problem is that the jobserver protocol assumes that one process is one jo…

We do support ELF (Unix) already, and we are working on Mach-O (macOS/iOS/watchOS/etc) now. Once Mach-O is finished, we'll be working on PE/COFF (Windows).

mold/macOS aims to be a drop-in replacement for the Apple's ld. I don't think it supports all the feature you mentioned already, as it is still pre-Alpha. But we are working on it …