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Official Mold Linker Rewrite in Rust

Mold is a high-performance linker written in Rust, offering faster linking times to streamline engineering workflows.

Mold is a high-performance drop-in replacement for existing Unix linkers, designed to enhance build speeds. In August 2026 benchmarks, mold linked 4.9 times faster than LLVM lld and 1.9 times faster than wild. Since its introduction in 2021, mold has become the default linker for many large open-source projects.

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