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Hi.
I might be mistaken since I'm not too expert in go.
But according to the code, I think memory of queued items is always stay at the queue capacity and never be freed
e.g. if the queue capacity is 1000, and I enqueued 1000 items where each item has 1kb of data, even if I will dequeue the 1000 items, the underlying buffer will still contain references to the items, so go garbage collector will never free the memory.
Am I correct? I think get() function should place a nil value before it returns the item to ensure no zombie references exist to items which were dequeued.