What I always really wanted was some kind of linker script debugger. Let me step through the linker script, show me all the input objects & segments etc.
Linker scripts are one of the worst aspects of the GNU (and LLVM) toolchain. Weird custom language, poor documentation, quite buggy, zero debugging tools.
Anyway, impressively huge release!
What advantage does this have compared to mold?
Mold is already very fast, however it doesn't do incremental linking and the author has stated that they don't intend to. Wild doesn't do incremental linking yet, but that is the end-goal. By writing Wild in Rust, it's hoped that the complexity of incremental linking will be achievable.
Also I believe Mold only supports ELF.
And based on the benchmarks they've posted, Wild is even faster than Mold.
Honestly, op should've also put that on the excerpt. Thanks!
It's on the title, you don't even need to read the excerpt👆.
But more seriously, the excerpt is from the release/tag notes, but what's quoted above is from the README.
While eventually implementing incremental linking was the inspiration, as already pointed out. It's actually already faster than mold (see benchmarks).
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