This week at LWN: Striking gold in binutils

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Apr 12, 2008 2:56 PM EDT
LWN.net; By Jake Edge
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A new linker is not generally something that arouses much interest outside of the hardcore development community—or even inside it—unless it provides something especially eye-opening. A newly released linker, called gold has just that kind of feature, though, because it runs up to five times as fast as its competition. For developers who do a lot of compile-link-test cycles, that kind of performance increase can significantly increase their efficiency.

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