dequeueing

One or more worker threads work in the background, dequeueing and executing queued items.

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Note that after dequeueing, the element x being in the element field of the header cell, is no longer considered part of the queue.

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The size of the queued objects: I'll test queues of objects of two different sizes - "small" and "large" objects that each contain 10 and 100 strings, respectively, of length 26 characters, so that enqueueing or dequeueing an object costs 10 or 100 deep string copies.

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To safely dequeue an item we must first check to see if the queue is empty, to avoid dequeueing from an empty queue.

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