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An exception to this is precisely parsing and validation in which linked lists can and ideally should be populated consecutively (using an arena allocator). I agree that general purpose linked lists are rarely optimal but they are hard to beat for parsers where they hit a pareto sweet spot of implementation simplicity and good performance.


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