mold 3.0.0 is a new major release of the high-speed linker. As we announced in the 2.42.1 release notes, we have rewritten mold from C++ to Rust, and this is the first release of the Rust version. ...
Is it too much effort to write wtf the package is?
mold: A Modern Linker
mold is a high-performance drop-in replacement for existing Unix linkers, designed to speed up builds. In our August 2026 benchmarks, it links 4.9x faster than LLVM lld and 1.9x faster than wild at the median; see Benchmark for the full results.
The benchmarks mentioned seem to be a little misleading. The wild author has investigated these benchmarks in a blog post which has also been featured in the next to last This Week In Rust issue.
Is it too much effort to write wtf the package is?
mold: A Modern Linker
mold is a high-performance drop-in replacement for existing Unix linkers, designed to speed up builds. In our August 2026 benchmarks, it links 4.9x faster than LLVM lld and 1.9x faster than wild at the median; see Benchmark for the full results.
The benchmarks mentioned seem to be a little misleading. The wild author has investigated these benchmarks in a blog post which has also been featured in the next to last This Week In Rust issue.