How to implement the LRU (cache) algorithm

Andre Lucas
ProgrammingOnMars
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3 min readMar 16, 2024

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When we are implementing any caching technique in our architecture, it is essential to know what is the best eviction policy that makes sense to use.

LRU cache — Least Recently Used

The LRU policy evicts the object that was less accessed lately, keeping the other objects more accessed lately.

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