Wild: A Fast Linker Written in Rust, Aims to Outperform Mold Linker
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- #Rust
- #Linker
- #Performance
- Wild is a new high-speed linker written in Rust, aiming to outperform existing linkers like Mold.
- Led by David Lattimore, Wild focuses on fast linking for Linux systems and supports iterative development.
- Key design goals include incremental linking, which Mold does not currently support.
- Wild has been tested on Linux x86_64, ARM64/AArch64, and RISC-V platforms but lacks non-Linux and LTO support.
- Benchmarks show Wild outperforming LLD and sometimes Mold in certain scenarios.
- Licensed under Apache 2.0 and MIT, Wild is available on GitHub for further exploration.