How quickly minimizing $M*x-v$ (numerically) ?

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Let $v$ in $R^m$ and let $M$ be a matrix from $R^n$ to $R^m$, with $m>n$ big numbers.
I want to compute a vector $x$ in $R^n$ such that the norm of $M*x-v$ is minimal.

One way is to compute the projection $w$ of $v$ on the image of $M$.
For so, we can compute the projection $p$ on the image of $M$, as follows :

MTGS=M.transpose().gram_schmidt()[0]  # it's orthogonalization, not orthonormalization
l=MTGS.rank()
U=[]
for i in range(l):
   v=MTGS[i]
   u=v/(v.norm())
   L=list(u)
   U.append(L)
N=matrix(m,l,U)  
p=N.transpose()*N

Then:

w=p*v  
x=M.solve_right(w)

This vector $x$ minimizes the norm of $M*x-v$, but this method is very expensive in time, because it computes $p$ and $w$, while I just need $x$.

Is there another method, less expensive in time, for computing $x$ ?

Remark : I'm ok with numerical methods.