Version 0.9.0 of the Wild linker is out with lots of new features and bug fixes. No real performance improvements this time I'm afraid, but at least we didn't slow it down. We've also started work porting to other platforms.
https://davidlattimore.github.io/posts/2026/05/24/wild-update-0.9.0.html
Version 0.8.0 of the Wild linker is out. This release brings lots of new features and bug fixes as well as some performance improvements. The benchmarks page now has more benchmarks on it and also now compares the performance of the last few Wild releases. Thanks to everyone who contributed!
https://github.com/davidlattimore/wild/releases/tag/0.8.0
In the Wild linker, we make extensive use of rayon for parallelism. In some places, we process graphs or do other work that doesn't fit neatly into rayon's par_iter. In this post, I explore some of the different approaches we've used and some of their issues as well as discuss possible future options.
https://davidlattimore.github.io/posts/2025/11/27/graph-algorithms-in-rayon.html
We've just released version 0.7.0 of the Wild linker. Only 6 weeks after our last release, but with lots of changes. Lots of bug fixes, new features and even a performance improvement for those with more than 8 CPU threads. Thanks to everyone who contributed!
We've just released version 0.6.0. It has lots of bug fixes, many new flags, features, performance improvements and adds support for RISCV64. This is the first release of wild where our release binaries were built with wild, so I guess we're now using it in production. I've written a blog post that covers some of what we've been up to and where I think we're heading next.
https://davidlattimore.github.io/posts/2025/09/23/wild-update-0.6.0.html
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the RustForge conference in Wellington, New Zealand. While there, I gave a talk about some of my favourite optimisations in the Wild linker.
https://davidlattimore.github.io/posts/2025/09/02/rustforge-wild-performance-tricks.html
The other day, I had the pleasure of chatting with @timClicks about the Wild linker for an episode of his podcast, Compose. The recording is now up at https://timclicks.dev/podcast/david-lattimore-faster-linker-faster-builds
Wild version 0.5.0 is out with lots of bug fixes and new features. https://github.com/davidlattimore/wild/releases/tag/0.5.0
Thanks everyone who contributed! I'm doing this release from Rustweek in the Netherlands.
Version 0.4.0 of the Wild linker is out. It's a huge release with more than 250 commits and several new contributors. We now support aarch64 on Linux. Check out the full release notes at https://github.com/davidlattimore/wild/releases/tag/0.4.0
If you're developing on Linux, we'd love it if you could give it a try and let us know what linker flags and other things you're using that we don't yet support.
The Wild linker is at the point where I've decided it makes sense to start work on adding support for incremental linking. To that end, I've written a design document.
https://davidlattimore.github.io/posts/2024/11/19/designing-wilds-incremental-linking.html
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