Under which circumstances are the elements of a linked list laid next to each-other in memory?

[Andreas Klebinger]

I think what you are remembering is "just" a effect of copying GC. As
you said that won't get rid of the pointer chasing nor magically
transform the result into some kind of dense structure internally.

Am 13/11/2024 um 13:39 schrieb Hécate via ghc-devs:
> I remember that I heard that in some cases, GHC would be able to lay
> down in memory the elements of a linked list next to each other. I
> don't think this gets rid of the pointer-chasing, but I'm interested
> to know more about the circumstances in which linked lists are optimised.