Yep! It's worth restating the fact that wrapping a pointer in an Option in Rust actually takes up NO extra space, because Rust's smart enough to just optimize i

Yep! It's worth restating the fact that wrapping a pointer in an Option in Rust actually takes up NO extra space, because Rust's smart enough to just optimize it back into a nullable pointer. https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ptr/struct.NonNull.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ptr/struct.NonNull.html