From bed8d740e5e439ba6b89a270682b7dbb2d339dfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brad Smith Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 01:28:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] [docs] Remove the History section This does not really serve any purpose nowadays. --- lld/docs/index.rst | 24 ------------------------ 1 file changed, 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/lld/docs/index.rst b/lld/docs/index.rst index 637e74c70c985..8260461c36905 100644 --- a/lld/docs/index.rst +++ b/lld/docs/index.rst @@ -125,30 +125,6 @@ not, run ``readelf --string-dump .comment `` and examine the output. If the string "Linker: LLD" is included in the output, you are using LLD. -History -------- - -Here is a brief project history of the ELF and COFF ports. - -- May 2015: We decided to rewrite the COFF linker and did that. - Noticed that the new linker is much faster than the MSVC linker. - -- July 2015: The new ELF port was developed based on the COFF linker - architecture. - -- September 2015: The first patches to support MIPS and AArch64 landed. - -- October 2015: Succeeded to self-host the ELF port. We have noticed - that the linker was faster than the GNU linkers, but we weren't sure - at the time if we would be able to keep the gap as we would add more - features to the linker. - -- July 2016: Started working on improving the linker script support. - -- December 2016: Succeeded to build the entire FreeBSD base system - including the kernel. We had widen the performance gap against the - GNU linkers. - Internals ---------