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		dennismar on Oct 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust Starter Kit 2020 Unsafe blocks are not needed. Rc<RefCell<Node<T>>> is what I used.

shepmaster on Oct 3, 2020 | [–]

The post you are replying to says "efficiently implemented with unsafe". For a linked list, you generally get (has unsafe code + efficient) or (no unsafe code + not as efficient).

Ar-Curunir on Oct 3, 2020 | [–]

Yeah, but you can get more efficiency by using unsafe (Rc allocates extra)

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