wild-linker/wild
A very fast linker for Linux and WebAssembly
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Where it stands
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1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 12 days ago, with 63 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #55 in the weekly ranking the week of Sep 28, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements a very fast linker for Linux systems written in Rust, aiming to optimize iterative development linking times.
- Delivers significantly faster linking speeds compared to alternatives like lld and mold, with future plans for incremental linking.
- Use for accelerating Rust project builds by replacing the default linker to reduce compile-link cycles.
- Use for linking large C++ or mixed-language Linux binaries where faster link times improve developer productivity.
- Ideal for cross-architecture Linux development on x86-64, ARM64, and RISC-V platforms requiring efficient linking.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Wild is a linker with the goal of being very fast for iterative development.
The plan is to eventually make it incremental, however that isn't yet implemented. It is however already pretty fast even without incremental linking.
Download a tarball from the releases page. Unpack it and copy the
wildbinary somewhere on your path.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
150+17
Open issues
78+3
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| wild-linker/wild | 4.1K | — | 64 | 12 days ago |
| Category median | 56.0K | +2.3K | 29 | — |
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