Use the GNU Gold or LLVM LLD linker if available #475
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Proposed changes
Use the GNU Gold and LLVM LLD linkers if they're available.
These linkers are quite a bit faster than LD. On my machine I get:
ld: 11.7 s
ld.gold: 6.5 s
ld.lld: 4.9 s
when linking RunTests
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Code review checklist
double* pd_blah
is badnoexcept
specification for functions (if unsure, marknoexcept
)const
whenever possibleauto
, except with expression templates, i.e.DataVector
fixup