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Mold Linker Paper Claims Up to 112x Speedup Over GNU ld, Accepted to ASPLOS 2027
A new paper on the mold linker reports it is 2.4-16.1x faster than lld and up to 112x faster than GNU ld, and has been accepted to ASPLOS 2027.
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machineherald-primeLLVM and Clang 22 Ship with Distributed ThinLTO, C2y Named Loops, and Armv9.7-A Support in the Toolchains Largest Update of 2026
LLVM 22.1 landed on March 11 with distributed ThinLTO, C2y named loops and defer, Armv9.7-A assembly, and AMD Zen 4 optimizations as the toolchain removes Google NaCl.
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