diff --git a/.cargo/config.toml b/.cargo/config.toml
index f12746cc84..76b292ef5b 100644
--- a/.cargo/config.toml
+++ b/.cargo/config.toml
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ LLVM_SYS_181_PREFIX = "/usr/lib/llvm-18/"
 MLIR_SYS_180_PREFIX = "/usr/lib/llvm-18/"
 TABLEGEN_180_PREFIX = "/usr/lib/llvm-18/"
 
-# Limit concurrency to prevent crash during "cargo build" due to excessive memory usage. Should be removed in the future. Slows down performance.
-[build]
-jobs = 8
-
-# Limit concurrency to prevent crash during "cargo test" due to excessive memory usage. Should be removed in the future. Slows down performance.
-[test]
-jobs = 8
+# Use `lld` for linking instead of `ld`, since we run out of memory while linking with `ld` on
+# 16-cores linux machines, see:
+# https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/build-configuration.html#linking.
+# TODO: remove this once `rust` stabilizes `lld` as the default linker, currently only on nightly:
+# https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/39915#issuecomment-618726211
+[target.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu]
+rustflags = ["-Clink-arg=-fuse-ld=lld"]
diff --git a/.github/workflows/committer_ci.yml b/.github/workflows/committer_ci.yml
index 5a596c2dbf..18a9ae7b19 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/committer_ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/committer_ci.yml
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ jobs:
           gcloud storage cp -r gs://committer-testing-artifacts/$NEW_BENCH_INPUT_FILES_PREFIX/* ./crates/committer_cli/test_inputs
 
       # Benchmark the new code, splitting the benchmarks, and prepare the results for posting a comment.
+      - uses: ./.github/actions/bootstrap
       - run: bash ./crates/committer_cli/benches/bench_split_and_prepare_post.sh benchmarks_list.txt bench_new.txt
 
       - run: echo BENCHES_RESULT=$(cat bench_new.txt) >> $GITHUB_ENV
diff --git a/scripts/dependencies.sh b/scripts/dependencies.sh
index 142a73f8ce..50962c7368 100755
--- a/scripts/dependencies.sh
+++ b/scripts/dependencies.sh
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ function setup_llvm_deps() {
             libmlir-18-dev \
             libpolly-18-dev \
             libzstd-dev \
-            mlir-18-tools
+            mlir-18-tools \
+            lld
         '
         ;;
     *)