mold
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
May 27, 2026first mention
Oct 5, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“LLD would work fine for the whole tree, and did previously, but is much much slower than mold which is why we switched to mold.”
distro maintainer with deterministic buildsswitched from LLDon “Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust”
“Mold's definitely innovating.”
builds a Lisp with embedded codeon “Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker”
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“It shaved hours off our full tree build time.”
Stagex distribution maintaineron “Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker”
“Have you switched to a faster linker [0] yet?”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust 2 mentions
- Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker 2 mentions
- Performance of Rust Language [pdf] 1 mention
Data: mold.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“LLD would work fine for the whole tree, and did previously, but is much much slower than mold which is why we switched to mold.”
“I expected this to be a multi-months rewrite, not 3 weeks.”
“Mold's definitely innovating.”
“It shaved hours off our full tree build time.”
“Have you switched to a faster linker [0] yet?”