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Should the last in a queue be served first? (LIFO)

by firebirdn99 on 11/24/23, 7:58 PM with 2 comments

• by firebirdn99 on 11/24/23, 7:59 PM

  Related blog post with above link on FIFO vs LIFO queue management: https://www.qminder.com/blog/queue-management/first-in-first....

• by moritzwarhier on 11/24/23, 8:21 PM

  > The best system, however, turned out to be last-in-first-out - or to put it another way, last-come-first-served - with the person who arrives last getting served first.

  As long as it doesn't lead to stacking people, I guess it's fine.

  Bad puns aside, this seems pretty reasonable! But it leaves the time aspect as a blackbox, e.g. at airports there are boarding times and that makes people come early.

  Not sure if this is fully generalizable to any type of queue (: