Comment by the-lazy-guy

> Once you add static linking to the toolchain (in all of its forms) things get really fucking slow.

Could you expand on that, please? Every time you run dynmically linked program, it is linked at runtime. (unless it explicitly avoids linking unneccessary stuff by dlopening things lazily; which pretty much never happens). If it is fine to link on every program launch, linking at build time should not be a problem at all.

If you want to have link time optimization, that's another story. But you absolutely don't have to do that if you care about build speed.