[llvm-dev] LLD status update and performance chart

[Rafael Avila de Espindola via llvm-dev]

Tim Northover <t.p.northover at gmail.com> writes:

>> Another reason for having lld "done" and benchmarked first.
>
> Please be honest with us. Your position is clearly "over my dead
> body", perhaps best phrased as "when I consider lld done and have
> moved onto something else".

It is over a finished linker. Once it is done and working we can know
what the costs are of any proposed refactoring.

We have tried writing everything as a library pretending it would be
independently useful. It didn't work.

Cheers,
Rafael