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After some internal debate, I decided to generate what I'm considering to be a similar figure that highlights the things that I think are important (specifically the 3 things I feel the above doesn't convey), and label things with the terms I use to think about them. As mentioned several times, my background is biology, not computer science, and ultimately I think slightly inaccurate descriptive terms may help clear up some of the confusion.
Different Queues
The stamapede2 user guide has detailed information about the queues and what the limits are, but similar to the figures above, as a biologist the information in those tables isn't really what I tend to think about. Instead I think about the queues as follows:
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