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by papln 2553 days ago
What's wrong with degrading from LIFO to a random queue due to client retry, when you're starting from a FIFO that is already failing client expectations?
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Nothing, if it's just used for that (narrow, least-bad, degraded) situation. I was addressing the more general point that LIFO queues have some actionable superiority over FIFO in the general case because of the theoretical results cited in the literature.