Bold : A Drop-In Replacement For Apple System Linker Written In Zig
a year ago
- #Zig
- #linker
- #performance
- Bold is a drop-in replacement for Apple's system linker ld, written fully in Zig.
- It is on par with LLVM lld linker, faster than the legacy Apple ld linker, but slower than the rewritten Apple ld linker.
- Benchmark results show bold is 2.23 times slower than the rewritten Apple ld linker but 2.38 times faster than LLVM lld linker.
- Bold can be used with clang via -fuse-ld=bold or with gcc via -B/path/to/bold.
- To build bold, you need Zig 0.14.0 and can compile it with 'zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast'.
- Unit and end-to-end tests can be run with 'zig build test'.
- Contributions to the repository are welcome.