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> Linked lists have real performance benefits in some applications. Maybe in 0.01% of the cases. In reality they just ruin your cache and memory allocator perf

• mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
  In many cases you can get around these issues by being a little more clever in how you allocate nodes. In some cases you don't have the luxury of allocating all elements next to eachother anyway, in which case an intrusive linked list is often the best option to minimise copying. You might say use a vector of pointers or a circular buffer, but if you're in a timing sensitive context you might be unable to realloc. Hell, memory allocators themselves are often implemented using some form of linked list. You tend to see them quite a bit at very low levels like in kernels.