this is a substantially faster linker which should yield some speedups
for our builds
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Nice! Never tested efl with the gold linker myself. Glad that it works out of the box and gives us some speed improvements.
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maybe using clang and ld.lld would also be worth a try (lld should be even much faster than gold, and clang should also be at least a little bit faster)
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I actually benchmarked lld vs gold vs ld on the src/examples/ directory linking and the results were extremely underwhelming. On my local machine it was something like 5mins for gold and 4:45-4:50 for lld--basically within the margin of error. Not worthwhile at all considering the docker image space required.
The compiler itself is actually not much of a bottleneck; ccache results in near 100% direct cache hits on an average build, meaning that the compiler is almost never called. Linking takes far, far longer.