Practical applications of linked lists
As of now, we have discussed singly linked lists, circular linked lists, and doubly linked lists. Depending upon what kind of operations (insertion, deletion, updating, and so on) will be required in different applications, these data structures are used accordingly. Let’s see a few real-time applications where these data structures are being used.
Singly linked lists can be used to represent any sparse matrix. Another important application is to represent and manipulate polynomials by accumulating constants in the node of linked lists.
It can also be used in implementing a dynamic memory management scheme that allows the user to allocate and deallocate the memory as per requirements during the execution of programs.
On the other hand, doubly linked lists are used by the thread schedular in the operating system to maintain the list of processes running at that time. These lists are also used in the implementation of MRU (most...
