Augmented Linked Lists: An Essential Guide

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While a linked list is primarily a write-only and sequence-scanning data structure, it can be optimized in different ways.
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While a linked list is primarily a write-only and sequence-scanning data structure, it can be optimized in different ways. Augmentation is an approach that remains effective in some cases and provides extra capabilities in others.