Should I write a ParameterDeque?

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I have a module that stores a list of nn.Parameters (old gradients - it’s an optimizer).

I only store a fixed number, say 100, so after a while I want to kick out the oldest.
My natural instinct is to use a python deque, but of course that won’t work, since I need to store my parameters in a ParameterList or ParameterDict for stuff like .cuda() or .double() to work.

Now I wonder if I should just bite the (perhaps not that great) performance bullet of using a ParameterList as a deque, just calling del list[0] at each step.
Or if I should clone nn.ParameterList and make my own implementation using deque?
I suppose I could also use a ParameterDict with consecutive integers as keys…

None of the options seem ideal. Is there a best practice I should refer to?

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I ended up creating this: ParameterDeque.py · GitHub

Still interested in ideas for other ways of doing this.