[Tech] LIFO simulations

[Ken Snider]

Jano wrote:

> But the fixed latency of FIFO can be *ages* (look at ed2k). This reminds me
> of a discussion in the gnutella ML some years ago, where some lead
> developer (of bearshare IIRC) and other people advocated that queues should
> be completely dropped (admittedly they had not much support, but one of
> them was the big theorist in there, kinda like oskar here?).

Couldn't you just accomplish this with a FIFO queue of arbitrarily short 
depth or fixed lifetime per-queue-object? The would seem to gain you all the 
benefits of LIFO without the drawbacks mentioned by toad.

--Ken.