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Don't Use This Crate, ...unless you have to - Windows Linked Lists in safe and idiomatic Rust

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Colin Finck Software Engineer at Enlyze GmbH Don’t Use This Crate, …unless you have to. Linked lists are inefficient with regard to caching and memory usage, and there is almost always a better tool for the job. Nevertheless, linked lists are also used in all major operating system kernels for decades and we can’t just forget about them. I will present nt-list, my Rust crate to work with Windows Linked Lists in a safe and idiomatic fashion. Better known as LIST_ENTRY and SINGLE_LIST_ENTRY, th

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