{
  "id": 10329548,
  "title": "Wild beats mold linking Rust 20 times out of 20, and in release the linker is no longer the bottleneck",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/wild-beats-mold-linking-rust-20-times-out-of-20-and-in-release-the",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-28T01:01:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/efraingaray/wild-beats-mold-linking-rust-20-times-out-of-20-and-in-release-the-linker-is-no-longer-the-113n"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "I measured Wild 0.10.0, mold 2.42.1, rust-lld and GNU ld linking ripgrep and cargo. Wild won all 20 repetitions of each project, by 1.9 ms and about 8 ms . With either fast linker, the link is close to 1% of the rebuild — it stops being the bottleneck. On the way I almost published false numbers; the post shows the trap and how I caught it. Read the full measurements →…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}