Rui mentioned today that he managed to speed up mold "about 1.5 times" while writing this paper https://x.com/rui314/status/2092486965186969699?s=20
Seems that some optimizations went to mold 2.42 and others are not yet released. Wild benchmarked mold 2.40 or 2.41
I guess this sentence from the Wild readme is also relevant:
To be clear, Wild also doesn't do incremental linking yet but plans to in the future