The linker from the LLVM project lld
is currently developed with new features added week by week. Its developers promise that lld
is faster than ld
. How does it compete compared to gold
?
Is lld a drop-in replacement for ld
? With gold there are some hoops to jump through.
One of the LLD developers, Rui Ueyama, looks back at the progress LLD did in 2016, see http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-December/107981.html.
And, as a bonus:
Update spring 2017 According to one of the developers "LLD/ELF is now ready for production use at least for x86-64 (and probably for AArch64 and MIPS).", see http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-March/111083.html It also contains a brief description on how to make use of LLD.