zld VS sold

Well sold has a few extra features, namely macOS support, so I assume if you're a developer on a MacBook, and you want to link faster, you'd need to use sold. Although to be honest, I didn't see much difference between soldon macOS and zld.

Have you tried zld (https://github.com/michaeleisel/zld) for linking?

The default linker is single-threaded so, unless you're on a platform where you can use a fancier multi-threaded linker like mold or zld, single-core performance will dominate for the final linking step.

- If it's not a release build that needs to be verified-good, consider using `mold` to link your builds and test binaries: https://github.com/rui314/mold --- it is much faster than lld or gold. For mac users there is https://github.com/michaeleisel/zld but mostly if you care about build times you need to get off macOS somehow.

Zld: Drop-in, faster version of Apple's linker\ (0 comments)

There is also zld (https://github.com/michaeleisel/zld) which might get you a further speed up.

as an alternative linker for Rust as an example:

https://github.com/michaeleisel/zld#if-using-rust

It’s tentatively planned for 3.0. https://github.com/bluewhalesystems/sold/issues/8

The file formats are indeed totally different. But the operation of linking is the same at a high-level.

...and the macos/iOS-supported version, sold, is commercial and non-AGPL.

see https://github.com/bluewhalesystems/sold

sold? (Yes I'm on macOS)

mold/macOS is commercial software. For mold/macOS, please visit https://github.com/bluewhalesystems/sold. ```

> Note that `sold` is still free-as-in-£ for use in CI/CD

The relevant part of the EULA [1] states:

> Individuals who use the Software only occasionally, or non-interactive use of the Software that is not explicitly invoked by an individual such as CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery), are not considered Active Interactive-use Users ("AIUs"). No additional fees are required for such uses.

I had to read it multiple times to understand the CI/CD bit. It's not clear to me whether the EULA says that CI/CD is an example of "use that is explicitly invoked by an individual" or if it's an example of "non-interactive use that is not explicitly invoked by an individual" - the wording is unclear to me and can have either of the opposite interpretations.

At my day job, we occasionally test C++ code changes by compiling in a CI/CD system to obtain a container image that we can push into a staging environment. This means we have a develop-compile-test cycle where the "compile" step involves pushing to a merge request branch, waiting for CI/CD to finish, and then running a deploy script to push out the newly-built image for testing. I wonder if this would be considered "Active Interactive-use Use" or not.

[1] https://github.com/bluewhalesystems/sold/blob/main/LICENSE.m...