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[docs] Remove the History section (#98715)
This does not really serve any purpose nowadays.
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output. If the string "Linker: LLD" is included in the output, you are
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History
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Here is a brief project history of the ELF and COFF ports.
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- May 2015: We decided to rewrite the COFF linker and did that.
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Noticed that the new linker is much faster than the MSVC linker.
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- July 2015: The new ELF port was developed based on the COFF linker
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architecture.
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- September 2015: The first patches to support MIPS and AArch64 landed.
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- October 2015: Succeeded to self-host the ELF port. We have noticed
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that the linker was faster than the GNU linkers, but we weren't sure
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at the time if we would be able to keep the gap as we would add more
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features to the linker.
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- July 2016: Started working on improving the linker script support.
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- December 2016: Succeeded to build the entire FreeBSD base system
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including the kernel. We had widen the performance gap against the
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GNU linkers.
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