Replacing ld with gold - any experience?

Question

Has anyone tried to use gold instead of ld?

gold promises to be much faster than ld, so it may help speeding up test cycles fo

Answer 1

You could link ld to gold (in a local binary directory if you have ld installed to avoid overwriting):

ln -s `which gold` ~/bin/ld

or

ln -s `which gold` /usr/local/bin/ld