I wanted to use the linker to link a Chromium executable with full debug info (~2 GiB in size) just in 1 second. LLVM’s lld¹, the fastest open-source linker which I originally created a few years ago, takes about 12 seconds to link Chromium on my machine. So the goal is 12x performance bump over lld. Compared to GNU gold, it’s more than 50x. - mold / HN