Ken Snider wrote: > 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.
A short FIFO queue for incoming searches would be similar to token-passing, but tokens have the advantage that you know whether your search will fit in the queue (because you have a token), so you can avoid sending searches that will be dropped. Cheers, Michael
