title: Replacing ld with gold - any experience?
body: <p>Has anyone tried to use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_%28linker%29" rel="noreferrer"><code>gold</code></a> instead of <code>ld</code>?</p>
  
  <p><code>gold</code> <a href="http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/38" rel="noreferrer">promises</a> to be much faster than <code>ld</code>, so it may help speeding up test cycles for large C++ applications, but can it be used as drop-in replacement for ld?</p>
  
  <p>Can <code>gcc</code>/<code>g++</code> directly call <code>gold</code>.?</p>
  
  <p>Are there any know bugs or problems?</p>
  
  <p>Although <code>gold</code> is part of the GNU binutils since a while, I have found almost no "success stories" or even "Howtos" in the Web.</p>
  
  <p>(<em>Update: added links to gold and blog entry explaining it</em>)</p>