Wild 0.8 is now available as this speedy linker focused on iterative development, a goal of incremental linking, and written in the Rust programming language.

Wild 0.8 adds support for the LoongArch64 CPU architecture, SFrame stack trace format support for debugging, and a variety of other new options and features.

Wild 0.8 also has more performance improvements including to parallelize copying data sections, heap allocation optimizations, and a number of other performance improvements.

This new linker also has a number of bug fixes, documentation improvements, and other enhancements. Benchmarks shown by the project indicate some nice performance gains for even faster linking, as measured by the time for linking Google Chromium browser builds:

Downloads and more details on the Wild 0.8 linker release via GitHub .