Lengthy link time - any way to speed up?

[yanshay]

I have a pretty large application, and it takes about 1:15 minutes for the last step which I believe is the linking.
I have a pretty capable machine with lots of memory (which is far from being fully utilized) - Macbook M4 Pro 48GB RAM.
Compilation (which is incremental) is quick, but linking is slow.
Any way to speed linking time? Will setting up some kind of RAM Disk help? Maybe some settings?

[Dominaezzz]

The answer to improving linking speed is typically "Try a different linker" but I'm not sure if that's possible here.

[MabezDev]

LLD will probably be a bit quicker than GCC, but if you're running an Xtensa chip LLD struggles to link to the WiFi blobs at the moment. It might be worth trying though, as I haven't tried in nearly a year.