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dtolnay / request-for-implementation

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Closed tesuji closed 4 years ago

tesuji commented 4 years ago

A faster linker may improve compile time of Rust. There are experimental on integrate lld as default default linker for Rust, which is tracked at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/39915. But lld has it own problems: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?page=2&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+lld+label%3AA-linkage

I don't know how hard it be to implement a cross-platform linker. But this may be a fun project to try.

dtolnay commented 4 years ago

A brand new cross-platform linker is a bigger project than I would prefer to track in this repo. Thanks anyway!