Wow. Has it been almost 20 years since the gold linker appeared?

LLVM's lld linker is typically faster. see https://llvm.org/devmtg/2017-10/slides/Ueyama-lld.pdf and https://lld.llvm.org/

The developer behind the lld linker then developed the mold linker - see https://github.com/rui314/mold and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34382908

There's also the wild linker - see https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wild-Linker, https://github.com/davidlattimore/wild and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42814683

ToC of all the 20 articles: https://lwn.net/Articles/276782/

EDIT: hug of death I suspect, in the meantime you can use [0]

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20250523172646/https://www.airs....

Previously:

Linkers, part 1 (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9597406 - May 2015 (7 comments)

Meet the new kid on the block, wild. Purported to be the fastest in the west. I'm using mold myself.