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cmrdporcupinetoday at 4:18 PM1 replyview on HN

Reminds me of this other queuing theory blogpost classic https://medium.com/swlh/fifo-considered-harmful-793b76f98374

TLDR LIFO (stack, not queue) is often a better choice for many workloads, despite violating our sense of fairness.


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inigyoutoday at 5:00 PM

Huh. That's so obvious but I never would have thought of it.