Bold linker v0.2.0 release – bold just got faster
a year ago
- #benchmark
- #updates
- #performance
- Bold has achieved a 1.19x speed-up compared to v0.1.0 when linking the Zig stage3 compiler.
- Bold now outperforms LLD in benchmark tests but remains slower than Apple's rewritten ld64.
- Benchmark results show ld.sh is 2.18x faster than bold.sh, 2.39x faster than lld.sh, and 2.58x faster than bold-0.1.0.sh.
- Key changes include updates to Zig 0.14, making Atom.Index safe, and migrating to safe File.Index.