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

Some projects seem to be incompatible with gold, because of some incompatible differences between ld and gold. Example: OpenFOAM, see http://www.openfoam.org/mantisbt/view.php?id=685 .