I'm pretty sure the author there means to compare the intrusive linked list to a non-intrusive linked list (such as C++ std::list), not to vectors etc. that are

I'm pretty sure the author there means to compare the intrusive linked list to a non-intrusive linked list (such as C++ std::list), not to vectors etc. that aren't "linked" at all. As described e.g. in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549542 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549542 .