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Re: New ELF linker code added to GNU binutils


On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:

>  At the moment gold has only one significant advantage over the
>  existing linker: it is faster.  On large C++ programs, I have measured
>  it as running five times faster.

This new linker sounds interesting, but I'm not sure as someone who
maintains a binutils port what's in it for me. ;-)

Is it designed just to be faster or are there other new features
planned? Should I consider doing a port of gold to my target? At the
moment not linking Linux is a showstopper for me, but I would imagine
that will be fixed in time.


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