Re: arm*/mips*/s390x woes

[Mikolaj Konarski <mikolaj.konarski@gmail.com>]

> Also, from https://wiki.debian.org/Haskell/GHC I noticed that GHC v8.2
> uses ld.gold on most of the architectures (including amd64 and i386)
> whereas GHC v8.0 uses ld.gold only on arm*. Is this an intentional
> change? I was under the impression that we wanted to migrate away from
> ld.gold (given how buggy has been so far).

Here is some explanation:

https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/master/users-guide/8.2.1-notes.html#compiler

There were also some fixes to problems with gold linker
and many people testified it's much faster than the system one.