Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker

Old tweet from Rui, but I saw it in a recent zig video and really liked the sentiment:

(https://x.com/rui314/status/1560277403787997185)

> my strategy is to increase the value of commons by, say, 100 and get 1 as a return, so bear with me. If you want to use mold for free, you can just do that. This is my open-source business strategy.

Wishing the best for Mold and Rui

Wild is a decent bit faster than mold at this point:

https://github.com/wild-linker/wild

(Benchmarks in the README.)

Would use this at a fairly large company if we had windows and Mac support, probably could get budget to pay for the features it’s missing.

We use mold as the default linker in the Stagex linux distribution. It shaved hours off our full tree build time.