Re: linking with mold

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

> Am 22.12.2021 um 12:57 schrieb Andreas Fink <afink@list.fink.org>:
> 
> I'm happy in terms of functionality with gold linker but linking my
> projects is quite slow. My projects has around five thousands source
> files. All very small but still lots of them. So linking is taking most
> of the time when I modify and run something.

Hm.

Couldn't you group those 5000 files into a hierarchy of libraries/frameworks?
And re-link only a small modified portion of the full dependency tree?

Current Linux kernel has ca. 32911 .c files but links (not compiles) within
seconds by such a hierarchy if I change a single source file.

-- hns