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		joas_coder on Nov 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ultra-low-latency, batching and concurrent queue f... It is clear to me now that poll only removes if there is something to remove A much better name would have been FETCH and not POLL We'll be changing everything from poll to fetch in the next version => availableToFetch() and fetch()

gpderetta on Nov 28, 2024 [–]

While we are bikeshedding, what about peek() (returns the element, but doesn't dequeue), pop() (dequeue and return the element), try_peek(), try_pop() for the polling variants.

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