Benchmarking Wild vs. Mold

Benchmarking Wild vs Mold Home About David Lattimore - 2026-09-18 Mold has recently updated their linker benchmarks and included Wild for the first time. These benchmarks show Wild being substantially slower than Mold in contrast to Wild’s most recently published benchmarks from our last release on August 4th. This post is an attempt to understand why there’s such a difference in the benchmark results. Mold’s benchmarks were run on two machines: A 64 core (128 thread) Threadripper running Ubuntu