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Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector by tick_tock_tick on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:38AM (#28325286)
ehh depends on what you're actually coding one job intrusive doubly-linked list were everywhere and very appropriate while my current job never touch them at all.
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Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector by arethuza on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:54AM (#28325352)
I believe the Linux kernel has its own implementation of doubly-linked lists:

https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/DataStructure...

Edit: Not that I know much about the Linux kernel, but I do remember it being used as a counter example when someone stated before that nobody uses doubly-linked lists.

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