It doesn’t claim linked lists are fast. And it doesn’t have any benchmarking data. Actually the only reference to linked lists I see is in the prefetcher secti

It doesn’t claim linked lists are fast. And it doesn’t have any benchmarking data. Actually the only reference to linked lists I see is in the prefetcher section (3.7.3), where it explicitly recommends that consecutive items are stored in a single 4kb cache line or in consecutive cache lines. They give a positive code example using an array, like other commenters are suggesting.