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| Firefox 89 libxul (1.64 GiB) | 32.95s | 6.80s | 1.42s

mold is so fast that it is only 2x _slower_ than `cp` on the same
machine.
machine. Feel free to [file a bug](https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues)
if you find mold is not faster than other linkers.

Feel free to [file a bug](https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues) if
you find mold is not faster than other linkers.
mold currently supports x86-64, i386 and ARM64.

## Why does the speed of linking matter?

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One reason is because it simply uses faster algorithms and efficient
data structures than other linkers do. The other reason is that the
new linker is highly parallelized.
new linker is highly parallelized (i.e. optimized for _modern_
multicore processors).

Here is a side-by-side comparison of per-core CPU usage of lld (left)
and mold (right). They are linking the same program, Chromium
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