Does .NET's LinkedList recycle nodes?

Question

When using the overloads which directly accept your data (i.e. linkedList.AddFirst(myData) and linkedList.RemoveFirst()), does .NET internally recycle its link nodes?

Or would this need to be accomplished manually with a Queue?

Answer 1

No, nodes are not recycled.

As you can see from the reference source, new nodes are created when new data is added.

public LinkedListNode<T> AddFirst(T value) {
    LinkedListNode<T> result = new LinkedListNode<T>(this, value);

    ...
}