[Phase 1] Implement in-memory LinkStore backend (Rust)

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Summary

• Implement MemoryLinkStore - a high-performance in-memory storage backend for links
• Use HashMap for O(1) lookups by ID (millions of ops/sec demonstrated in benchmarks)
• Implement link deduplication (identical structures share same ID via reverse index)
• Add thread-safety with Send + Sync bounds
• Full CRUD operations: create, get, find, update, delete, exists, count
• Pattern matching with wildcard support (Any pattern)
• Iterators for traversing links by pattern
• clear() and reset() methods for store management

Closes #9

Implementation Details

Files Added

• rust/src/backends/mod.rs - Module declarations for backends
• rust/src/backends/memory.rs - Full MemoryLinkStore implementation (~1100 lines)
• rust/examples/memory_store_benchmark.rs - Performance benchmark example

Trait Modifications

• Added increment() method to LinkType trait for safe ID generation using wrapping_add
• Updated iter() signature with proper lifetime annotations
• Made iter_all() a required method (removed default impl that caused lifetime issues)

Architecture

pub struct MemoryLinkStore<T: LinkType> {
    links: HashMap<T, Link<T>>,       // Primary storage: ID -> Link
    dedup_index: HashMap<LinkKey<T>, T>,  // Reverse index for deduplication
    next_id: T,                        // ID generator
}

Performance (from benchmark)

• Create: ~2.7M links/sec
• Get by ID: ~12M ops/sec (O(1) verified)
• Exists check: ~13M ops/sec (O(1) verified)
• Update: ~1.3M ops/sec
• Delete: ~2.6M ops/sec
• Deduplication: ~20M ops/sec

Test Plan

• 51 unit tests covering all functionality
• Thread safety verified at compile time (assert_send/assert_sync tests)
• 26 integration tests pass
• 22 doc tests pass
• Performance benchmark validates O(1) lookups
• All 83 unit tests + 26 integration tests + 22 doctests pass

Run tests with:

cd rust && cargo test

Run benchmark with:

cd rust && cargo run --example memory_store_benchmark --release

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