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0 pointsiLoveOncall3y ago0 comments

The guys that improved dependency download time by up to 80% at my company (Amazon) sure as hell are enjoying the 3% raise they got like everyone else.

I agree with you that Mold is an order of magnitude faster than the competition (sometimes). However in that case the absolute value is more representative than the relative number. Your linking time going from 10 seconds to 1 or 2 seconds is only a tiny improvement.

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liuliu3y ago

Nobody only spent 10s on linking. For any reasonable sized binary (in the range of 100 to 200 MiB) it is somewhere around 50s to 60s before mold. People regularly links 1GiB binary for living during their development cycle. If you use small binary or primarily using Go, probably not the target audience of mold.

Otherwise I actually agree mold is amazing but have limited commercialization potential unless author expands the scope (like RAD Game Tools) / take some VC money (much like Emerge Tools)

jeffbee3y ago

10s is an extreme link time with lld. lld can link clang in 6s. Mold cuts that in half, but it's still true that you save 3s, not a minute.

maccard3y ago

I disagree. Our lld link times for the Linux build of our project is over 3 minutes, with LTO disabled.

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