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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.

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

Yes, muscle memory :)

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.