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fmajid on June 19, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mold/macOS is 11 times faster than the Apple's def...

John R. Levine’s book Linkers and Loaders remains the only comprehensive coverage on the topic. You can get the manuscript proofs for free on the author’s website:

https://www.iecc.com/linker/

The Solaris Linkers and Libraries docs are very good and mostly relevant to Linux, with fewer distractions about Windows:

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E36783/index.html

rurban on June 19, 2022 [–]

I would argue reading mold's source code is much easier and simplier to understand.

KerrAvon on June 19, 2022 | [–]

Than Levine’s book? You would lose the argument.

rurban on June 20, 2022 | | [–]

nope, read both, mold was easier. even if I am a perl master.

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