Absolutely, I'm not claiming linked lists are "better" than arrays. The GP was mentioning memory fragmentation and cache behavior, and I was pointing out that G

Absolutely, I'm not claiming linked lists are "better" than arrays. The GP was mentioning memory fragmentation and cache behavior, and I was pointing out that GCs can, at least in some conditions, make linked lists more efficient then they are in C (comparing naive implementations). But yes, linked lists are almost always worse than arrays, unless you're doing huge amounts of add/remove on large amounts of data.