These improvements are quite promising and I'm looking forward to giving that a spin once it is released.
Will the Windows side for 0.17.x get some compiler improvements as well or is this Linux only?
Might not make it in time for 0.17 but there is a contributor making progress on the COFF linker: https://codeberg.org/kcbanner/zig/src/branch/coff_linker_wip
Might not make it in time for 0.17 but there is a contributor making progress on the COFF linker: https://codeberg.org/kcbanner/zig/src/branch/coff_linker_wip