rui314/mold
mold: A Modern Linker 🦠
About the project
A high-performance drop-in replacement for Unix linkers that speeds up C/C++/Rust builds by linking object files faster.
Useful for
- Replace lld or GNU ld in a build to cut link time for large projects
- Speed up the debug-edit-rebuild cycle when developing in C++ or Rust
- Build projects for ARM64, RISC-V, PowerPC and other supported architectures
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Why it’s trending
- 8 stars today.
- Over the last two days the pace is 2× that of the previous week and a half.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 17,002
- Stars in a day
- 8
- Forks
- 554
- Issues and pull requests
- 1,589
- Watchers
- 111
- Language
- C++
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- v2.42.1 · September 11, 2026
- Created
- September 29, 2020
- Last push
- September 12, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
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- September 13, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #9, +21 stars
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