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A language community which so prizes the linked list is in no position to go throwing such stones.

Linux lucked out, when you're doing tricky wait free concurrent algorithms that intrusive linked list you hand designed was a good choice. But over in userland you'll find another hand rolled list in somebody's single threaded file parser and oh, the growable array would be fifty times faster, shame the C programmer doesn't have one in their toolbox.



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