As an aside, for those who do not know, Ian wrote the Gold linker, which sped up linking by a factor of 100. https://lwn.net/Articles/276782/ provides an index to his 20 part blog post on linkers.
On Sunday, 16 August 2020 07:49:16 UTC+1, Amnon wrote: > > Thanks for the answer! > > Thanks also for your blog post on linkers > https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/38 > I know it is from 12 years ago. But I am behind on my reading, and it is > taking > me some time to catch up. And it still is an excellent introduction to > what linkers do. > > Yes Austin Clement's better-linker document is great. But it is nearly a > year old. > So I was wondering if there were any changes to plan, surprises or new > insights. > > Austin's doc refers to your idea of a new object format for the 21st > century. > Has anyone developed that? > > As someone who has been writing linkers since 1988, (most famously the > Gold linker), and who has a fair > number of commits on the dev.linker branch, do you have any insights into > the new linker project > which would be interesting to share with the world? > > The new linker is probably the biggest change in 1.15. But there is > surprisingly little information about it. > It is almost invisible - which I suppose is a tribute to its success. > But are there any talks about the new linker which are worth watching? > > - Amnon > > > > On Sunday, 16 August 2020 05:46:53 UTC+1, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> >> On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 11:49 AM Amnon <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > What is the best place to read about the ongoing work on the new >> linker? >> > With the Go 1.15 release, how far along are we with the plans? >> > What has been achieved? >> > And what is still to come? >> >> The work on the new linker is close to complete and has been merged >> into tip for the future 1.16 release (although 1.16 won't be released >> until next February). The work is as described at >> https://golang.org/s/better-linker. >> >> Ian >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/e6bee135-8935-4180-b44f-5252e2070c02o%40googlegroups.com.
