mold: A Massively Parallel Linker
Weekly Paper Notes — one of the top picks from the 2026-08-29 CS paper digest. Area: Operating Systems / Systems. Authors: Rui Ueyama (The University of Tokyo) arXiv: 2608.23228 · PDF · Code TL;DR mold is a Unix/Linux ELF linker built around one commitment: every major pass is a data-parallel loop over a homogeneous array, and nothing important is left sequential. The enabling move is decoupling input parsing from symbol resolution....