moncefmechri

Comparing `lld` 16.0 and `mold` 1.11.0

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[The recently-released `lld` 16.0 has seen some performance optimization work](https://releases.llvm.org/16.0.0/tools/lld/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#elf-improvements), so I wanted to see how it compares to `mold`, and share the numbers I got. The application linked is...

Suspiciously low User and Sys time

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I am benchmarking the mold linker on an in-house application, using hyperfine 1.15.0 (from conda-forge) to drive the benchmarks. While the wall-clock times reported seem correct, the "User" and "Sys"...

mold generates very large .debug_macro sections

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On the following reproducer (copied from an [unrelated `lld` bug report](https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42030#c0), with small changes to the Makefile), built on Linux x86_64, using GCC 14.2: Makefile: ``` N=10000 OBJECT_FILES := $(foreach...