> You're ignoring the case of a list being densely packed and embedded inside another data structure. No, I am not. This conversation is exclusively about non-

> You're ignoring the case of a list being densely packed and embedded inside another data structure. No, I am not. This conversation is exclusively about non-intrusive doubly-linked lists. If you want to have a conversation about intrusive doubly-linked lists we can have it, but it is a very different data-structure. > You really need to stop assuming what kind of computers other people are programming Every week I touch x86, arm, ppc64, riscv and gpu assembly. I write code for apps daily that run from 16-bit micro controllers to the largest super computers in the world, going through phones, desktops, cloud, etc. I am not assuming what others are programming, but rather talking about what I program for, which include most hardware that anyone can buy today, and quite a bit of hardware that almost no one can even buy, as well as hardware that's not for sale.