zld VS zig

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

There is an issue proposing this approach: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/4284

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/224

e.g.:

> > When debugging/prototyping, it's useful to comment out a line without having to refactor, e.g.

When writing code in a scripting language, sometimes you need that extra bit of performance (or maybe an async feature from Zig).

NodeJS is by no means a slow runtime, it wouldn’t be so popular if it was. But compared to Bun, it’s slow. Bun was built from the ground up with speed in mind, using both JavascriptCore and Zig. The Bun team spent an enormous amount of time and energy trying to make Bun fast, including lots of profiling, benchmarking, and optimizations.

ntdll.dll!RtlUserThreadStart()

There are valid reasons to use APIs from NTDLL. Where I disagree with zig#1840 is the idea that it is always better to use NTDLL versions of API. Every other software ecosystem uses the standard Win32 APIs and diverging from that without a good reason seems like a good way to have unexpected behavior. One concrete example is most users and programmers expect Windows to redirect some file system paths when running on WOW64. But this is implemented in Kernel32, not ntdll.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/11894

Zig also has an IRC channel on libera (#zig) that is moderated by Andrew Kelley.[1]

[1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Community