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Sure thing. Compiled mold from source and got the following numbers when compiling Ditzes:

- Debug build from scratch: ~1m 20s

- Incremental debug build: ~3s

- Release build from scratch: ~3m 40s

So, seems that helped quite a bit, thanks for the tip :)

As someone who is generally unaware of things as I'm new to Rust, is there any drawbacks to using a non-default linker? Everything seems to work fine as far as I can tell, but no drawbacks mentioned in the repository of Meld makes me slightly skeptical.

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nicoburns4y ago· 1 in thread

The drawbacks of mold are:

- It's linux only (macOS support WIP)

- It's still somewhat experimental. It may not be able to link everything. There may be bugs.

Having said that, it's written by someone with a lot of experience writing linkers (they previously worked on lld), can link codebases as complex as chromium, and generally seems to work well for most use cases.

A common pattern would be to use mold for development, and then the regular linker (varies by platform) for release builds.

capablewebOP4y ago

> A common pattern would be to use mold for development, and then the regular linker (varies by platform) for release builds.

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for sharing the potential drawbacks and possible solutions to those :)

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