{"slug": "wild", "name": "wild", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 4, "warners": 0, "score": 3.881, "rising": 4.0, "first": "2026-08-26", "latest": "2026-10-01", "why": "Wild is a decent bit faster than mold at this point", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 0, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 2], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Wild is a decent bit faster than mold at this point", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/wild-linker/wild", "official_url": "https://github.com/wild-linker/wild", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["wild", "Wild"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 798774512, "item_id": 49923407, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923407", "by": "estebank", "date": "2026-10-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Wild improves things significantly", "excerpt": "> Is that still true with modern linkers like `wild`? Seems like it can link Chromium in 1-2s. Wild improves things significantly, but it really depends on the kind of project. For some a third of the time can be linking. And not everyone configures their environment to use a different linker. Another thing that can easily improve performance is changing the global allocator, but I've seen teams that measured 10% per", "context": "", "use_case": "Linker for Rust builds", "switched_from": "", "story": "How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026"}, {"id": 791389026, "item_id": 49461814, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461814", "by": "MaskRay", "date": "2026-08-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "wild's model seems superior", "excerpt": "shameless plug: lld 23.x is significantly faster than 22.x! I wrote about the optimizations in https://maskray.me/blog/2026-04-12-recent-lld-elf-performance-improvements As a side note, parallel input file parsing and symbol resolution aren't a silver bullet. 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I guess it only matter for crates you're actually editing though, macro will already be cached as part of \"entire crate is unchanged\") > Another thing that can easily improve performance is changing the global allocator, but I've seen teams that measured 10% perf improvements in their own metrics decide", "context": "", "use_case": "fast linker for Rust builds", "switched_from": "", "story": "How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026"}, {"id": 798774512, "item_id": 49923407, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923407", "by": "estebank", "date": "2026-10-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Wild improves things significantly", "excerpt": "> Is that still true with modern linkers like `wild`? Seems like it can link Chromium in 1-2s. Wild improves things significantly, but it really depends on the kind of project. For some a third of the time can be linking. And not everyone configures their environment to use a different linker. 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I have an experimental branch (net ~800 lines of code) adding this to lld/ELF, but it actually loses performance when restricted to --threads={1,2} I read how m", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker"}, {"id": 791300144, "item_id": 49456259, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456259", "by": "dochtman", "date": "2026-08-26", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Wild is a decent bit faster than mold at this point", "excerpt": "Wild is a decent bit faster than mold at this point: https://github.com/wild-linker/wild (Benchmarks in the README.)", "context": "", "use_case": "linking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker"}]}