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There are linkers which are significantly faster than the ones used by default.

Gold and bfd are two examples.

I use these for development and then test with the default linker just in case there’s some subtle issue hiding somewhere.

Gold's pretty slow by today's standards! - it was fast in say 2009 compared to ld, but not really anything to write home about these days.

lldb and mold (mentioned in article) are much faster.

Gold is marginally faster than ld and uses significantly less memory when building large-ish projects like LLVM.

And lld is faster than gold. And mold is faster than lld.

I think you meant lld instead of lldb (which is LLVM's debugger).

Yes, muscle memory :)