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@@ -45,6 +45,15 @@ the `REQUIRE` family of macros), Catch2 does not know that there are no
 more sections in that test case and must run the test case again.
 
 
+### MinGW/CygWin compilation (linking) is extremely slow
+
+Compiling Catch2 with MinGW can be exceedingly slow, especially during
+the linking step. As far as we can tell, this is caused by deficiencies
+in its default linker. If you can tell MinGW to instead use lld, via
+`-fuse-ld=ldd`, the link time should drop down to reasonable length
+again.
+
+
 ## Features
 This section outlines some missing features, what is their status and their possible workarounds.