* conventional bounded queues, which either block or reject new elements when full.
 *
 * <p>This implementation is based on the <a
 * href="http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=6621">min-max heap</a> developed by Atkinson, et al.
 * Unlike many other double-ended priority queues, it stores elements in a single array, as compact
 * as the traditional heap data structure used in {@link PriorityQueue}.

 * conventional bounded queues, which either block or reject new elements when full.
 *
 * <p>This implementation is based on the <a
 * href="http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=6621">min-max heap</a> developed by Atkinson, et al.
 * Unlike many other double-ended priority queues, it stores elements in a single array, as compact
 * as the traditional heap data structure used in {@link PriorityQueue}.