Since the SpawnedThings array is still available when polyobjects are spawned it makes no sense to create an expensive linked list in P_SpawnMapThing.
This can be done far better by scanning through the array again and collect all matching items in a second array.
This thing made sense when GZDoom and ZDoom were separate projects to avoid having to change some core files for the added options.
Now, with only 3 ones remaining, one for FraggleScript and two for Extradata the overhead here is just too high. The 3 variables can just be moved to level_info_t without carrying along this much baggage.