wild

Wild is a decent bit faster than mold at this point: https://github.com/wild-linker/wild (Benchmarks in the README.)

Wow. Has it been almost 20 years since the gold linker appeared? LLVM's lld linker is typically faster. see https://llvm.org/devmtg/2017-10/slides/Ueyama-lld.pdf and https://lld.llvm.org/ The developer behind the lld linker then developed the mold linker - see https://github.com/rui314/mold and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34382908 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

Are their ghostty builds statically linked by default or does zig follow in the footsteps of the C/C++ world and dynamically link everything? If statically linking (like rust) then a huge part of the incremental build times for apps with external dependencies is the lack of incremental linking in any of the major linkers. Wild linker is working on becoming the answer to this: https://github.com/davidlattimore/wild

> Between mold 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.

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/

Super interesting proposal from David who is working on the wild linker. Sort of inverting the compilation process to drive codegen by what is actually needed, as opposed to compiling everything then throwing away what you don't need later. The duplicate function checker tool is nifty too, 9% of my release build is duplicate functions. 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