Simple lru cache?

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Mon Oct 7 18:41:09 EDT 2002


    Ype> Does anyone know of a good lru cache implementation in python?

    Skip> ... I wrote and use:
    Skip> http://manatee.mojam.com/~skip/python/Cache.py

    Paul> This question (LRU caches) comes up so often and so many have been
    Paul> written that maybe it's time for a C module.

In my particular case that's not necessary.  I'm caching database query
results.  I get a big enough performance win with the current module that
rewriting it in C wouldn't improve things enough more to bother.

Skip




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