[llvm-dev] LLD Build Improvements

[Rui Ueyama via llvm-dev]

As Eric mentioned, lld is generally much faster than GNU linkers, so many
companies, especially ones that build large-scale programs (including
Google) have migrated to lld and saw a significant reduction in build time,
which improved developer productivity. So I'd say that large-scale program
development seem to improve the most from lld.

Other interesting area that seem to be benefited from lld is a bootloader
and other UEFI programs. UEFI programs are in COFF file format (which is
the same as Windows), and it was not easy to build a UEFI program in a
host-independent way. There was a hacky way to workaround: for example, you
can first build a UEFI program as an ELF program and transplant its text
and data segments to an empty COFF file using objcopy. Or, maybe you can
just use a Windows machine to link an UEFI program. lld solved the issue
because lld is a cross-linker. You can create COFF object files using
clang-cl and link the object files using lld/COFF to produce a UEFI program
in a very straightforward manner.

On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 8:47 AM Nicholas Krause via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Greetings All,
>
> I was wondering what projects seem to improve the most from lld as a
> linker. It s
>
> seems to mostly be browsers and games but if someone has something else
>
> I would be interested to hear what. The site doesn't really talk about what
>
> projects improve the most so I would be curious to hear what does and
>
> even if possible why.
>
>
> Nick
>
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