Zig Programming Language Introduces New Elf2 Linker with Improved Performance
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Summary
A new linker called Elf2 has been developed for the Zig programming language, offering significantly improved performance and incremental compilation support. The linker can be enabled via CLI flag or build script configuration, and is already the default when using incremental compilation targeting ELF. Performance improvements are substantial enough that separate build steps for code generation and linking are no longer necessary.
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· 4 pulledThe new linker can be used with -fnew-linker in the CLI, or by setting exe.use_new_linker = true in a build script.
It is already the default when passing -fincremental and targeting ELF.
The performance is fast enough that there's no longer much of a benefit to exposing a -Dno-bin build step.
This iteration already has significantly better incremental support.
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