The linker from the LLVM project lld is currently developed with new features added week by week. Its developers promise that lld is faster than ld. How does it compete compared to gold? Is lld a ...

Has anyone tried to use gold instead of ld? gold promises to be much faster than ld, so it may help speeding up test cycles for large C++ applications, but can it be used as drop-in replacement fo...

I have to make a dso that static link stdc++ and need can unload from memory dynamic. So I tried with compile gcc with --disable-gnu-unique-object and use gold link with -Wl,--no-gnu-unique options...

The man for gold states: -L DIR, --library-path DIR Add directory to search path --rpath-link DIR Add DIR to link time shared library search path The man for bfd ld makes it sort of sound l...

My Haskell project spends lots of time in Linking dist/build/myapp/myapp ... and also in loading shared libraries when executing TemplateHaskell code. I suspect this is because ld is slow. How ca...

Update (30-Sept-2016) The Ubuntu build of gcc-6.2 ((Ubuntu 6.2.0-3ubuntu11~16.04) 6.2.0 20160901) no longer has this issue. I'm using the Ubuntu build of gcc-6.1[1] ((Ubuntu 6.1.1-3ubuntu11~14.04....

I'm writing a custom pass for LLVM/Clang, and recompiling tends to take a while and use a lot of memory. I've heard that the gold linker (1) takes less time and (2) uses less memory than the standa...

If I want to compile my project with -flto is it enough to have built gcc with --enable-gold or do I also need to build gold and replace ld with it? And do I need any other flags? Ie I'm doing this...

I'm trying to build Google's ligjingle following the Getting started steps, and I've reached the "Building" section. When I issue either ninja -C out/Debug or ninja -C out/Release I get the ...

When trying to install any package on my computer using a command like cabal install http-conduit the installation aborts with the following error: /usr/bin/ld: --hash-size=31: unknown option ...