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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 14:43:58 JST 翠星石

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   @phoronix >Phronix shills LLVM's cringe and weakly licensed linker instead of pointing out that GNU ld has mostly caught up speed wise to gold (GNU ld links in only a few seconds even in large codebases, thus it's not like it slows down the compilation process) and has more features, thus removing much reason to maintain gold anymore.
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     Phoronix (phoronix@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 14:43:59 JST Phoronix

     GNU Gold Linker Is Deprecated & Will Be Gone For Good Without New Developers

     With the recent GNU Binutils 2.44 release, one of the changes is worth calling out in its own article: the GNU Gold linker is now officially deprecated and is now being segregated to its own extra Binutils package but risks being removed all together without new developer volunteers stepping up to maintain this linker...
     https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Gold-Linker-Deprecated