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Wild 0.7 Released For This Very Fast Linker Written In Rust

([Programming] 6 Hours Ago Wild 0.7)


Wild 0.7 released on Monday as the newest feature release for this very fast linker for Linux systems competing with Mold on x86_64 / ARM64 / RISC-V devices.

Wild shares largely similar goals with the Mold linker but is focused on eventually supporting incremental linking with Mold not planning to. Additionally, Wild is written in the Rust programming language. Rust was chosen in part for the belief that it will reduce the complexity of writing incremental linking support. At the moment though Wild doesn't support as many CPU architectures as Mold and also does not have any Windows and Mac support, no LTO support, and other feature caveats.

Wild though has been looking nice at least from their own benchmarks relative to Mold and LLD:

Wild 0.7 brings more features implemented like allowing to set the entry point for shared objects, handling of .symver ASM directives, and various new options. There are also some performance improvements as well as bug fixes and other build improvements. Wild 0.7 also features initial bits of support for linking on the OpenSolaris-derived Illumos platforms. Wild's linker diff also now supports RISC-V.

Downloads and more details on the Wild 0.7 high performance linker via [1]GitHub .



[1] https://github.com/davidlattimore/wild/releases/tag/0.7.0


Linux Advocacy Crackdown

SHERIDAN, WY -- In an unprecedented blow to Linux advocacy, Aaron McAdams, an
employee at the Sheridan Try-N-Save Discount Store, was fired last week.
According to the store's general manager, McAdams was fired because "he
constantly rearranged items on shelves so that Linux-related books and
software boxes would be displayed more prominently than Windows merchandise."
McAdams' boss added, "If he would have spent as much time actually working as
he did hiding Windows books at the back of shelves, he wouldn't have received
the pink slip."

The general manager supplied Humorix with videotapes from the store's
security cameras showing McAdams in action. In one scene, he takes a whole
stack of "...For Dummies" books and buries them in the Cheap Romance section,
an area of the store rarely visited by computer users. In another, McAdams
can be plainly seen setting copies of Red Hat Linux in front of a large,
eye-catching display of various Microsoft products at the front of the
store. Finally, at one point McAdams can be seen slapping huge tags reading
"DEMO DISPLAY BOX -- NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL 1999" on boxes of Windows 98.

McAdams disputes his bosses accusations. "If he would spend more time
actually working instead of peering over security camera footage for hours on
end, this store might actually turn a profit for a change."