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Untangling Non-Linearity: How the Linked List Changed Everything

https://schmud.de/posts/2024-01-23-untangling-non-linearity.html

How the simple link became the foundation for artificial intelligence and all dynamic media.

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On modern computers, linked lists are rarely a good option for performance. The overhead of the memory allocator and the non-sequential layout (which results in CPU memory cache misses) means that dynamic arrays are surprisingly faster even for random inserts on very long lists.