win: Link with lld instead of MSVC's link.exe by default
lld is LLVM's linker. It produces PE/COFF and PDB files just like link.exe, but it's significantly faster and it can also handle LLVM's internal representation, which will enable us to do link-time optimization and control-flow integraty checks with Clang. While lld is much faster at linking, it doesn't support incremental links, meaning builds that only touch a few files and re-link a large executable may become slower. This is the first attempt at switching everything over, with the purpose of gathering data and finding unknown unknowns. It's likely temporary until something breaks. is_win_fastlink is implicitly ignored when using lld, as lld without fastlink is faster than link.exe with it. Also switch the CrWinClangLLD bots on chromium.clang to use MSVC's link.exe to make sure that configuration keeps working. Bug: 792131 Change-Id: I0f115a78c33d69eadbd480f75c2a5d636e86483d Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/983632 Commit-Queue: Nico Weber <thakis@chromium.org> Reviewed-by:Nico Weber <thakis@chromium.org> Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#551367}
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