feat: implement leaky subscribers. #208
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There are many times where you may have a subscriber that does something slow, but doesn't need every message; for example visualization which may take a while for a particular message, but we don't need to render EVERY one of them. It would be ideal if these subscribers do NOT cause backpressure, and instead drop older messages.
This PR implements that feature using a few keyword arguments for
InputStreams, as well asSubscribers.leaky = False: If True, drop oldest messages when queue is full.max_queue = None: Maximum queue size (ignored if leaky=False). Ifleaky = True,max_queuedefaults to 1.There is also a new example and tests to verify the functionality.