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by cmrdporcupine 11 hours ago
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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Huh. That's so obvious but I never would have thought of it.
Mind blown.