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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5 Review by neilc on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @06:33PM (#14093135)
> Linking is inherently mono threaded.

This is actually not the case -- modern linkers (e.g., lld) can take advantage of multiple cores.

https://lld.llvm.org/

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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5 Review by gpderetta on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @07:06AM (#14096518)
so can the 'gold' linker.
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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5 Review by neilc on Thursday April 13, 2017 @01:14PM (#14108932)
Interesting -- do you have a link on this?
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