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smol with John Nunley

Rustacean Station

CHAPTER

The History of Small Arrests

Rust is a Rust programming language. It's been around since June of last year, but it was just easier to rewrite the entire back end from scratch rather than apply some patch that would make things work for the moment. Instead of like using allocation, I use an intrusive linked list. This works well on both SDD and no SDD formats. The main problem with linked list would be that it allocates each node dynamically. And then there is no way to make it a contagious block, right? So you need to reverse the linked list in order.

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