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Michael Eisel

Personal blog · eisel.meprogrammingsystems

Michael Eisel's personal blog at eisel.me covers programming and systems. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Faster Apple Builds with the lld Linker”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2021–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Michael Eisel's post on lld as the recommended replacement when the zld linker is deprecated. The comment only points to the post and says nothing about its quality.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Faster Apple Builds with the lld Linker
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-12-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. The repository says it is deprecated and to use lld instead https://eisel.me/lld

    Comment linking /lld

    on “zld: A faster version of Apple's linker”
  2. Submitted Faster Mac dev tools with custom allocators as a story · 113 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Faster Apple Builds with the Lld Linker as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Faster Apple Builds with the lld Linker as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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