| The New ELF Linker |
| ================== |
| This directory contains a port of the new PE/COFF linker for ELF. |
| |
| Overall Design |
| -------------- |
| See COFF/README.md for details on the design. Note that unlike COFF, we do not |
| distinguish chunks from input sections; they are merged together. |
| |
| Capabilities |
| ------------ |
| This linker can link LLVM and Clang on Linux/x86-64 or FreeBSD/x86-64 |
| "Hello world" can be linked on Linux/PPC64 and on Linux/AArch64 or |
| FreeBSD/AArch64. |
| |
| Performance |
| ----------- |
| Achieving good performance is one of our goals. It's too early to reach a |
| conclusion, but we are optimistic about that as it currently seems to be faster |
| than GNU gold. It will be interesting to compare when we are close to feature |
| parity. |
