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How to try out the new "mold" linker with your CMake C/C++ project

How to try out the new mold linker with your CMake C/C++ project

Here is a quick how-to if you want to try out the new (supposedly fast) C/C++ linker https://github.com/rui314/mold

In this document I used Ubuntu-22.04 docker container with

  • GCC version 11.2.0
  • Clang version 14.0.0

1. Install mold :

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hellerbarde / latency.markdown
Created May 31, 2012 13:16 — forked from jboner/latency.txt
Latency numbers every programmer should know

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs