When I switched to using gold as the linker, I was at first a little surprised to find that it actually works at all. This isn’t especially common for a complicated program that’s just been committed to a source tree. Better yet, it’s as fast as Ian claims: my app now links in 2.6 seconds, almost 5.4 times faster than with the old binutils linker!

the new google-developed gcc linker. 5x faster, you are welcome. even those clowns on the thread who can’t get over the fact that it is in C++. when did lwn turn into /.?