New ELF linker code added to GNU binutils
Will Newton
will.newton@gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 11:54:00 GMT 2008
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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