Mold Alternatives

mold reviews and mentions

• A 20-part deep dive into how linkers work
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Aug 2024
• Mold 2.32 Released with powerful new features
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jun 2024
• I reduced (incremental) Rust compile times by up to 40%
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Mar 2024

  I think this is unlikely to gain traction. I say that no to discourage you, just to explain.

  - The community has an instinctive distrust of closed source or a compiler from an untrusted source. If you’re familiar with the Trusting Trust attack you’ll understand why.

  - Dev tools in every language ecosystem are almost always free, unless they involve some kind of hosting. People aren’t used to opening their wallets. Look the experience of the guy who built the mold linker(https://github.com/rui314/mold). Far superior to the state of art, improves incremental compiles a lot, widely applicable across ecosystems (C, C++, Rust), CPU architectures and Operating Systems. You don’t even have to modify your compiler, just need to point to his linker. He’s even giving it away for free for personal use. But still, almost no one uses it. The inertia of the established options is really high.

  - It’s not complex enough. Think about the complexity involved in the cranelift backend. No one can seriously recreate the efforts of bjorn3. If we could have, we would have. But the idea idea here can be recreated, especially by the experts who already built incremental compilation into rustc.

  - But if your solution is truly complex, like the parallel frontend, the burden of maintaining a fork would be too high. You’d have to spend all your time rebasing.

  Again I’m not trying to discourage you, just stating the difficulties of making a business in the dev tools space. You would be better off contributing this excellent work to the community and trying a different tack.

• Mold Course
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Dec 2023

  I initially thought this would be about the mold linker (https://github.com/rui314/mold)

• Monetizing Developer Tools
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Aug 2023

  I assume this submission is trying to highlight the specific message (2023-01-24) : https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/190#issuecomment-14028...

  Fyi... the author wrote a more expansive blog post about selling dev tools a few months later (2023-06-06) and there was a related HN thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36225016

• mold 2.1.0 - rui314/mold
  1 project | /r/linux | 15 Aug 2023

  Loongson's LoongArch CPU has been supported. (03b1a1c)

• Mold 2.0.0
  1 project | /r/hypeurls | 29 Jul 2023
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jul 2023

  I'm amazed at how quickly the author responds to requests: https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/1057

  From the report to the fix in less than two days.

  I'm not sure how competitive it will be with lld, especially if we consider ThinLTO (which takes multiple minutes on 64-core machine) - it can make the advantages of mold insignificant.

• Mold 2.0 released - MIT license
  1 project | /r/cpp | 28 Jul 2023
• Linking many files significantly increases build time. Is there an editor that allows you to write a single file but present the file to the screen as multiple 'virtual' files for better organization?
  1 project | /r/cpp | 28 Jun 2023

  What other solutions have you tried for the problem of slow linking? You haven't even said which linker and what flags you're using. I haven't actually tried it, but the author of gold has an even faster linker called mold: https://github.com/rui314/mold

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