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DragonFlyBSD Switches To Gold Linker By Default

By Rianne Schestowitz
Created 25/11/2015 - 1:15am
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 25th of November 2015 01:15:52 AM Filed under
BSD

DragonFlyBSD has switched to using the Gold Linker by default rather than GNU ld.

The GNU Gold linker for ELF files is designed to be faster and much more modern than the GNU linker. DragonFlyBSD has traditionally used GNU ld, but now Gold is ready for primetime use by default on this BSD distribution.

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Source URL: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/82792

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[1] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/115
[2] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DragonFlyBSD-Gold-Linker