Maybe it's 4am and I ought to sleep, but I'm having trouble understanding this article.

Is this phenomenon the same reason some PC game engines render objects in alternating reverse order each frame, rather than something theoretically more optimal like depth-sorted? I understand that in the case of 3D graphics if the textures don't fit in the GPUs memory, FIFO ordering will cause ALL textures to be ejected every frame as you cycle through the same objects in the same order, whereas reversing the order every frame means just the same batch of overflow textures "at the end" will get ejected every other frame.