Wild linker: status and plans
summary
A new linker called Wild is written entirely in Rust and currently targets Linux x86_64 with x86 and RISC-V ports underway; it is highly multithreaded and is used as default linker for six months showing strong performance versus LLD and mold (similar on many‑core machines due to memory bandwidth but faster on a 4‑core laptop), implements basic linker‑script support and LTO plugin hooks, passes the Rust compiler test suite locally, and plans an in‑memory daemon for incremental linking though full incremental linking is not implemented yet.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:10Wild linker
- 3:43Performance
- 5:58Contributing
- 7:17Rust compiler pass
- 8:03Google Summer of Code
- 8:37Basic linker scripts
- 9:11Linker plugins
- 10:13Incremental linking
- 13:16Hot code reloading
- 15:22Thank you
- 15:59Standardization
- 16:20Comments
- 19:10Mold
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