Matthew Dillon wrote:
quoted text
>     Personally speaking I think the blockmap idea may be the best way to go.
>     It would be theoretically possible to immediately reuse a block that
>     becomes completely free by unmapping it from the fifo (creating a 'hole'
>     in the fifo) and freeing it for reuse.  One would thus not have to cycle
>     the fifo to reach the block in order to reuse it.

Now combine that with 64bit block idents and you have a "quasi infinte 
FIFO" :)

cheers
   simon

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