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mold version 3.0.0, rewritten in Rust
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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2026
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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.