[GHC] #4862: Enable usage of gold linker with GHC

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Sat Dec 25 05:14:18 CET 2010


#4862: Enable usage of gold linker with GHC
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    Reporter:  ajd               |       Owner:              
        Type:  feature request   |      Status:  new         
    Priority:  normal            |   Component:  Compiler    
     Version:  7.0.1             |    Keywords:              
    Testcase:                    |   Blockedby:              
          Os:  Linux             |    Blocking:              
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Failure:  None/Unknown
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 The Gold linker is much faster than GNU ld, so it would speed up Haskell
 compile times if it could be used with GHC. Unfortunately, GHC currently
 passes some linker options that gold does not recognize. If there is no
 fundamental incompatibility, this would be a useful feature.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4862>
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