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Wild 0.10.0 linker outperforms mold in all 20 Rust benchmark runs

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Benchmarks comparing Wild 0.10.0 and mold 2.42.1 linkers showed Wild winning every single repetition across ripgrep and cargo projects. Wild was faster by margins of roughly 1.9 ms and 8 ms respectively against mold. Both fast linkers reduced link time to around 1% of a full rebuild, effectively eliminating linking as a performance bottleneck in Rust development. The author also noted nearly publishing flawed data, and the post details how the measurement error was identified and corrected.

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