Mold, one of the Linux ecosystem’s high-performance linkers, is moving towards a possible complete rewrite in Rust with an ambitious goal: becoming a replacement for GNU ld. The project is also studying to incorporate incremental link, while its developers prepare compatibility tests for kernels, firmware and distributions.
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Mold, one of the Linux ecosystem’s high-performance linkers, is moving towards a possible complete rewrite in Rust with an ambitious goal: becoming a replacement for GNU ld. The project is also studying to incorporate incremental link, while its developers prepare compatibility tests for kernels, firmware and distributions.