Mold 3.0 High Speed Linker Released Following Rust Rewrite
Mold 3.0 High Speed Linker Released Following Rust Rewrite Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 5 October 2026 at 06:29 AM EDT. Add A Comment The Mold high speed linker alternative to the likes of GNU Gold/LD and LLVM LLD recently has been going through a rewrite from C++ to Rust as well as having high ambitions of eventually becoming the default linker on Linux systems. Today marks the release of Mold 3.0 for this Rust-based high performance linker.
- ▪Mold 3.0 High Speed Linker Released Following Rust Rewrite Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 5 October 2026 at 06:29 AM EDT.
- ▪Add A Comment The Mold high speed linker alternative to the likes of GNU Gold/LD and LLVM LLD recently has been going through a rewrite from C++ to Rust as well as having high ambitions of eventually becoming the default linker on Linux sys
- ▪Today marks the release of Mold 3.0 for this Rust-based high performance linker.
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Mold 3.0 High Speed Linker Released Following Rust Rewrite Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 5 October 2026 at 06:29 AM EDT. Add A Comment The Mold high speed linker alternative to the likes of GNU Gold/LD and LLVM LLD recently has been going through a rewrite from C++ to Rust as well as having high ambitions of eventually becoming the default linker on Linux systems. Today marks the release of Mold 3.0 for this Rust-based high performance linker. Mold 3.0 is said to be a drop-in replacement to Mold 2.42.1 as the prior stable release, albeit now written in the Rust programming language rather than C++. With Mold 3.x the main focus is on addressing remaining compatibility gaps with GNU LD: "mold 3.0.0 is a new major release of the high-speed linker.
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