Issue #21821 has been updated by byroot (Jean Boussier).

there are 2 reasonable alternatives

About the second one, it's clever but not sure if ideal because it's no longer "atomic" on MRI, so is subject to `Thread#raise`. Looking at the `connection_pool` gem, one thing that slows it down considerably is the numerous calls to `Thread.handle_interrupt` to avoid leaking connections when `Timeout` is used. ---------------------------------------- Feature #21821: Add Stack and SizedStack classes https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21821#change-116071 * Author: byroot (Jean Boussier) * Status: Open * Target version: 4.1 ---------------------------------------- ### Context `Queue` and `SizedQueue` are very useful and performant constructs, however they only allow for FIFO queues. Some use cases do call for LIFO queues AKA stacks. For instance, in the case of connection pool, it's often preferable to use a stack. ### Feature I'd like to introduce `Stack` and `SizedStack` classes, to mirror `Queue` and `SizedQueue`. They'd have exactly the same method and behavior at the exception of dequeuing order. ### Thread namespace? Currently `Queue` and `SizedQueue` are technically defined under `Thread` and aliased in `Object`. I wonder if that's something we should do for `Stack` too, or just some historical thing we shouldn't perpetuate. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/